Question: I am setting a new server, with WHM / cPanel installed.

It is very important that I can take a full mySQL back-up once or twice a day.

Right now the databases are pretty small (20 mb), but volume will increase rapidly as soon s we get more customers.

I now there is a possibility to create a cron job and have the back-up emailed.
However, I think it is a shitty solution due to the future size of these back-up's.

What are your best advices regarding daily mySQL back-ups?

Answer: 
The implementation seems to be vendor specific, however looking at the documentation of date [parse](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/parse) we see that as of 1.8.5 javascript supports both [RFC2822](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#page-14) dates and [ISO 8601](http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime) dates.

As per the [Date.UTC](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/UTC) documentation ISO 8601 dates are assumed to be in UTC time if not otherwise specified and thus the timezone difference is automatically added.

RFC2822 dates seem to be assumed as local times and as such are not modified.
It will vary from browser to browser. The ECMA262 spec says any string which is not in `YYYY-MM-DD` format and is passed to the `Date` function, it may fall back to implementation-specific heuristics or implementation-specific date formats.