# How to set a timezone?
**URL:** https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091
**Category:** FAQ
**Created:** [September 21, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091 "2025-09-21T09:43:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Olli](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Olli)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091/1 "2025-09-21T09:43:48Z")
Hello,
My Sensor collects the time from 176.9.44.212 ([0.pool.ntp.org](http://0.pool.ntp.org)), and this time is 2 hrs behind our time…
Is there a way to correct this?
Thx for help!
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### Author:  [@Phaze-III](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Phaze-III)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091/2 "2025-09-21T14:25:04Z")
The time shown is in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) an as such correct. This time is only used by the sensor to check the validity of certificates for secure connections where a worldwide standardized time is needed. It is not used in data uploads.
There is no way nor need to convert this time to a local timezone.
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### Author:  [@Olli](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Olli)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091/3 "2025-09-21T17:09:00Z")
Thank you for this.
… as I am also uploading the data to my website, it would be more easy to correct this the “lazy way”…
As this is not available, I will resolve otherwise (php script)…
I was just lazy hoping for a lazy solution 🙂
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### Author:  [@Phaze-III](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Phaze-III)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091/4 "2025-09-21T18:12:01Z")
The real lazy way would be to just use the time on the webserver when the data is received 😉
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### Author:  [@plunet](https://forum.sensor.community/u/plunet)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091/5 "2025-09-22T12:47:44Z")
It’s generally considered best practice to keep data relating to date/time coded at UTC and then use the timezone of any client device used to display the date/time in your local timezone of appropriate (which will also deal with daylight saving changes if that applies)
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### Author:  [@Olli](https://forum.sensor.community/u/Olli)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.sensor.community/t/how-to-set-a-timezone/7091/6 "2025-09-23T20:30:19Z")
I agree to this, thank you!