[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35458: current_date returns incorrect timestamp

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#35458: current_date returns incorrect timestamp
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 Reporter:  Turn On Social  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General         |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                  |
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 'timestamp' functionality appears to be wrong.
 current_time('timestamp') should always return the timestamp according to
 UTC. That's because a timestamp is defined as the number of seconds that
 have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1
 January 1970.
 Therefore, producing this offset by x number of hours for local time is
 incorrect logic. If it's 1,452,598,896 seconds since the start of Unix
 time, this does not change depending on timezone - the number of seconds
 is the same (but may instead be displayed differently depending on
 timezone).

 John mentioned this was so it could be used in date functions but when an
 incorrect timestamp is fed to a date function, it will display the date
 wrong (as the timestamp has been artificially manipulated).

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35458>
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