You want to use UTC and convert it to your local timezone using functionality provided in most of todays languages. For example, in PHP, you could use gmdate('

You want to use UTC and convert it to your local timezone using functionality provided in most of todays languages. For example, in PHP, you could use gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s') to get the current time/date in UTC. In Python, you could use datetime.datetime.utcnow().