[wp-testers] Wordpress UTC Time

[Peter Westwood]

On Thu, March 22, 2007 8:32 am, Mark R wrote:
> On 3/22/07, David Herren <david at idiomatrix.com> wrote:
>>
>> THis is probably a naive question...
>>
>> What does wordpress have to do anything with time at all? Why doesn't
>> it just read the underlying system clock, which already handles the
>> daylight savings time changes? What am I missing?
>>
>>
> Timezones change in many countries - but this request is US-centric. I
> haven't ever seen a request from a non-US person about this. That isn' t
> to
> say it in the end might not be found useful, but my prediction is that
> this
> will not be mentioned anywhere at all for 12 months at which point we do
> it
> all again. If the clamour was in time with everywhere - good case.
>

I'm not sure it will be mentioned again in 12 months time - I think the
only reason it has come up so much now is the change in when the US switch
to DST.  This has made people look for things that don't support the new
dates and then assume they are broken (even when they don't necessarily
support auto-DST)

westi
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