How can developers determine the timezone settings of their MySQL server to ensure accurate timestamp recording?

Developers can determine the timezone settings of their MySQL server by running the SQL query "SELECT @@global.time_zone;" in their MySQL client. This query will return the current timezone setting of the server. To ensure accurate timestamp recording, developers can set the timezone of their PHP application to match the timezone setting of the MySQL server using the "date_default_timezone_set" function. 

// Get the timezone setting of the MySQL server
$query = "SELECT @@global.time_zone;";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
$mysql_timezone = $row['@@global.time_zone'];

// Set the timezone of the PHP application to match the MySQL server timezone
date_default_timezone_set($mysql_timezone);

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PHP MySQL timezone timestamp settings

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