[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8885: get_posts() should default
orderby post_date_gmt
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Fri Feb 6 16:25:33 GMT 2009
#8885: get_posts() should default orderby post_date_gmt
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Reporter: caorongjin | Owner: anonymous
Type: defect (bug) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 2.8
Component: General | Version: 2.7
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Changes (by Otto42):
* version: => 2.7
Comment:
Replying to [comment:1 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
> It's a little trickier imo. What should happen when, say, you drop an
hour due to daylight savings?
>
> You post something at 12:55. And then, when it's 12:05, you post
another, and the order will be messed up as well -- even using
post_date_gmt.
GMT does not do daylight savings. Never has, never will. So, post_date_gmt
should never go backwards in time.
Replying to [comment:4 bi0xid]:
> Maybe we must think using UTC instead of GMT to avoid problems in the
future.
UTC == GMT for all relevant cases. Okay, so they're technically different,
but for our purposes they're the same thing (we're not dealing with time
at the atomic level here...).
So yes, sorting by post_date_gmt instead of post_date makes sense. +1.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8885#comment:5>
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