[wp-hackers] Changing the clock format in Write > Post

[Daniel Torreblanca]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Torreblanca
>  <regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  I found a pretty good write up here
>  >  (http://drakecms.sourceforge.net/index.php?option=content&id=32&Itemid=10)
>  >  which works in PHP4 and PHP5. I'm willing to take a crack at this, but
>  >  if anyone else has already been working in this area and is close to a
>  >  solution then I'll sit it out. Thoughts?
>
>  Nice write up. That's more or less what I've been working on, although
>  I'm trying to avoid the need to hardcode the timezone strings into the
>  thing. Most Linux installs do include the zoneinfo database somewhere.
>  This works well with setting TZ, because if you set TZ to something
>  the OS does not understand, then you don't get the right results
>  anyway.

Hardcoding isn't ideal, I agree, but I also wouldn't want to rely on a
linux/unix-based OS-only feature.

Daniel