On Fri, 17 May 2002, DC wrote:
> I am on the East Coast of Australia.
> 
> Do you know if by default if the date/time display will display only
> East coast Australia time, or will display from the user's time zone? eg
> Will USA users see the Australian time or their own time? Would this
> cause a issue with timestamping an order when it comes to writing to a
> mySQL database?

It'll always use the server's time zone unless you explicitly tell it 
otherwise.

> Can someone suggest a script that may give me the option to offer both  time
> zones to the user?

Best is to store times in your server's native time zone, then ask users 
for their preferred time zone and recalculate times as you display them. 
That way all users can be accommodated with the same set of data.

miguel


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