[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8885: get_posts() should default orderby post_date_gmt

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#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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