A. the timestamp is based on the time zone of the miner, that is why it changes the difficulty continuously to reflect network latency.
B. the timestamp can't be influenced by a miner and is generally considered safe to be used for randomness on the blockchain.
C. the timestamp can be influenced by a miner to a certain degree but it's always independent from the time-zone.
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