# Is it possible to have script to get 'system time' - UTC or GMT?

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**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 8:46am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-script-to-get-system-time-utc-or-gmt/29739 "2021-07-30T08:46:12Z")\
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> [@clock3 System/GMT Time - Solved!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/system-gmt-time-solved/27524/):
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> 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…

I customized Jeff’s solution to use in all my apps since this thread.

You can convert your user’s “now” to CET and then your problem will be solved.

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