# Date and Time Functions & Daylight Savings **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [December 4, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/date-and-time-functions-daylight-savings/55403 "2022-12-04T19:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/date-and-time-functions-daylight-savings/55403/4 "2022-12-05T12:38:17Z")
Yes. It’s a computed column. All computed columns are computed on the user’s device, including desktop browsers. If we opened the same app at the same time. What shows as Now for you would be different for me. Case in point, I used that fact as a basis to determine the user’s timezones offset in this example. > [@clock3 System/GMT Time - Solved!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/system-gmt-time-solved/27524): > > This is an extension of the request for [System Time, please](https://community.glideapps.com/t/system-time-please/26837). There’s been a lot of questions for a while about how to get a universal time that can be shared for multiple users across multiple time zones. Most of you will know that any time your get a date/time from one of the glide special values, it will always be the user’s local time. But if you don’t know which time zone they are in, then you have no easy way to convert that date/time into something standard, like Greenwich Mean Time, to… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/date-and-time-functions-daylight-savings/55403)._