timezone update

backend/server.js

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 // server.js
+import dotenv from 'dotenv'; //load .env first before anything else
+dotenv.config({ path: path.join(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '.env') });
+
 import express from 'express';
 import cors from 'cors';
 import https from 'https';
@@ -6,10 +9,10 @@ import http from 'http';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
-import dotenv from 'dotenv';
 import mysql from 'mysql2/promise';
 import managerRoutes from './managerRoutes.js';
 import workerRoutes from './workerRoutes.js';
+import { APP_TIMEZONE } from './config/db.js';
 
 async function startServer() {
   dotenv.config({ path: path.join(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '.env') });
@@ -17,15 +20,19 @@ async function startServer() {
   const app = express();
 
   const db = mysql.createPool({
-    host: process.env.DB_HOST,
-    user: process.env.DB_USER,
-    password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
-    database: process.env.DB_NAME,
-    port: process.env.DB_PORT,
-    waitForConnections: true,
-    connectionLimit: 10,
-    queueLimit: 0,
-  });
+  host: process.env.DB_HOST,
+  user: process.env.DB_USER,
+  password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
+  database: process.env.DB_NAME,
+  port: process.env.DB_PORT,
+  waitForConnections: true,
+  connectionLimit: 10,
+  queueLimit: 0,
+
+  // Return date/time columns as strings like "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss"
+  dateStrings: ['DATE', 'DATETIME', 'TIMESTAMP'],
+});
+
 
   try {
     const connection = await db.getConnection();
@@ -54,24 +61,24 @@ async function startServer() {
     credentials: true,
     methods: ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'OPTIONS'],
     allowedHeaders: ['Content-Type', 'Authorization', 'ngrok-skip-browser-warning'],
-    exposedHeaders: ['Content-Range', 'X-Content-Range'],
+    exposedHeaders: ['Content-Range', 'X-Content-Range', 'X-Export-TZ'],
   };
 
   app.use(cors(corsOptions));
   app.use(express.json());
     // --- Public server time endpoints (no auth, no cache) ---
     const timeHandler = (req, res) => {
-      const now = new Date();
-      const ymdKL = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-CA', {
-        timeZone: 'Asia/Kuala_Lumpur',
-        year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit'
-     }).format(now); // "YYYY-MM-DD"
+    const now = new Date();
+    const ymdTZ = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-CA', {
+      timeZone: APP_TIMEZONE,
+      year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit'
+    }).format(now); // "YYYY-MM-DD"
 
       res.set('Cache-Control', 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate');
       res.set('Pragma', 'no-cache');
       res.set('Expires', '0');
 
-      res.json({ nowIso: now.toISOString(), tz: 'Asia/Kuala_Lumpur', ymdKL });
+      res.json({ nowIso: now.toISOString(), tz: APP_TIMEZONE, ymdTZ });
    };
     app.get('/time', timeHandler);       // public path
     app.get('/api/time', timeHandler);   // also under /api