Change TimeZone in hosting

The Servers have been set up with Time Zone GMT. You can modify your scripts to use EST or any other timezone you need by the following methods :

1) Using the function "putenv" in php scripts :
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To convert Time Zone using putenv

&l?
echo "Original Time: ". date("h:i:s")."\n";
putenv("TZ=US/Eastern");
echo "New Time: ". date("h:i:s")."\n";
?&g
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2) By putting the following in the .htaccess file in your main public_html folder :

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SetEnv TZ "US/Eastern"
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