Title: Localize submitted time
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Localize submitted time

 *  [max_Q](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max_q/)
 * (@max_q)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localize-submitted-time/)
 * Hi,
    Adding a time zone allows the submitted time to be correct for whatever 
   timezone the WordPress installation is set to. Adding:
 * date_default_timezone_set( get_option( ‘timezone_string’, ‘America/New_York’ ));
 * just before
    $time = time(); on line 2649 of accua-forms.php sets the timezone
   to the WordPress options setting, with an optional fallback to US east coast (
   but the default could be anything or nothing).
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 *  Plugin Author [cimatti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cimatti/)
 * (@cimatti)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localize-submitted-time/#post-4879915)
 * Hi,
 * time() returns the timestamp as seconds after 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and doesn’t
   changes with the timezone settings. $time is used a few lines below with gmdate()
   to save the date in UTC in the database format.
 * I think there it should save the timestamp in UTC; probably I should check that
   the database saves in UTC correctly and do do the timezone conversion when the
   data is displayed

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