added server time

backend/server.js

@@ -59,6 +59,22 @@ async function startServer() {
 
   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"
+
+      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 });
+   };
+    app.get('/time', timeHandler);       // public path
+    app.get('/api/time', timeHandler);   // also under /api
 
   app.use('/api/managers', managerRoutes(db));
   app.use('/api', workerRoutes(db));