default timezone

[Matt]

I think I too have heard that the way to do it is in fact, GMT. It does ring a bell anyways.

The only portability problem I see is that not everyone uses Apache webserver.

I suppose it would not much matter for you unless you plan on making this application for sale or distribution, and then, I still wonder. I think the more you can keep out of .htaccess the better though, because different web servers either do not read that file, or may interpret it differently than Apache does.

Why not let PHP do all the time processing based on GMT in MySQL?