Changing server to summer time zone with mongodb

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Hello everyone ,

I am new in administrating mongodb so maybe my question look silly , but I live in Egypt and we have summer and winter time zone so here is my question now the time will be changed soon and I want to make sure there will no affect on the database or the consistency of the data what is the best practice to follow in this case.

Thank you

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One suggestion, never use local time. Always go for UTC, and convert to local (in source) if you need it.

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Thanks for your replay
so do you know how to do it ? Or Is there any article with the steps to do so ?

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Just setup your server time to UTC, there’s tons of tutorials on how to do that. Then, simple MondoDB restart will do the job.