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I am building a lotery with one game per day on Ethereum but I need to know what is time zone is the transaction date in Solidity.

Is it gmt+0?

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  • Can you indicate the function you use to get the date in solidity ? Or have a look at https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/9858/solidity-is-there-a-way-to-get-the-timestamp-of-a-transaction-that-executed – Nicolas Massart Sep 24 '18 at 10:37

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Yes, it is GMT+0 or UTC.

According to Ethereum Yellow Paper the timestamp in a block is a unix timestamp.

timestamp: A scalar value equal to the reasonable output of Unix’s time() at this block’s inception; formally Hs.

Now from wikipedia

Unix time (also known as POSIX time or UNIX Epoch time) is a system for describing a point in time, defined as an approximation of the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970.

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block.timestamp

From Solidity docs

block.timestamp (uint): current block timestamp as seconds since unix epoch

It's a UNIX timestamp. Also now is an alias for block.timestamp.

A few things to keep in mind:

I need to know what is time zone is the transaction date in Solidity

You only get the block timestamp, not the transaction timestamp.

a lotery with one game per day

Miners (esp. mining pools) can potentially adjust the timestamp as they mine, so you should design your lottery in a way that it's not entirely timestamp dependent.

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