[wp-testers] Wordpress UTC Time

[J. Winslow]

I changed my time to DST in about 4 seconds by simply changing the UTC 
offset.  What is the big deal?

Indeed, my server is in a different time zone than I am, but that is 
completely irrelevant when you consider we enter the time in WP by an offset 
of UTC, not the server time anyway.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Bessant" <les at lcb.me.uk>
To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 01:25
Subject: RE: [wp-testers] Wordpress UTC Time

> Most obviously, that not everyone's server lives in the same timezone that
> they do. For instance, my site lives on a server in California, while I'm 
> in
> the UK. I set my site to display in my local time, and if it automagically
> set itself forward an hour when clocks changed in the US, I'd be 
> irritated.
> Less technical people than me would be baffled, and the support forum 
> would
> be deluged with questions about why WordPress doesn't know what time it 
> is.
>
>
> Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> [mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of David Herren
> Sent: 22 March 2007 05:13
> To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Wordpress UTC Time
>
> 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?
>
>
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