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I just ran into some trouble with an interface that is running on a germany based server but is accessed from a server in the U.S. and also in german. So when a client ie opens a ticket it will appear with the german time. An easy way to fix this issue on a linux based system is by setting the timezone environment with putenv.

<?php 
 
 
 
$us_ip = "<your_server_ip>";
 
 
 
echo "localtime: ".date("H:i:s");
 
 
 
if($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] == $us_ip) {
 
	 putenv('TZ=US/Central'); 
 
}
 
 
 
echo " US/Central time: ".date("H:i:s");
 
?>

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