[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #1329: Support for summer time / DST

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#1329: Support for summer time / DST
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       Id:  1329            |      Status:  assigned                
Component:  Administration  |    Modified:  Tue Apr 18 01:03:32 2006
 Severity:  enhancement     |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  normal          |     Version:  1.5.2                   
    Owner:  ryan            |    Reporter:  anonymousbugger         
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Comment (by J2000_ca):

 '''masquerade'''
 {{{
 Earlier you said you want to store everything in UTC and an offset will be
 applied, the offset will change with DST, thereby changing the time
 displayed at different times of the year, unless you store an offset or
 flag so that we know if it happened during DST. No matter what, we _must_
 store an offset, doing calculations on whether or not a post date was in
 DST time on every view is unacceptable and unnecessary.
 }}}
 This is a programming issue not an issue with the DST. For example
 CONVERT_TZ() could be used.

 '''masquerade'''
 {{{
 Excuse me? UTC and DST are interchangable? Has someone changed rules on
 me? DST isn't even an actual time, its a variance in normal offsets, how
 can that be interchanged with a UTC timestamp?
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 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ World Clock], note the starred
 ones which are observing DST however can easily be converted to UTC by
 looking at the bottom.

 '''masquerade'''
 {{{
 Your suggestion also leaves out what would happen with every person who
 visits who is not registered, which is what I thought you originally meant
 with User A vs User B.
 }}}
 '''ME'''
 {{{
 The blog would have a default timezone
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 IE. I set my blog to EST observing DST everyone sees the time as such.

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