[wp-hackers] Timezones, server settings, and WP dates

[Carthik Sharma]

Options->General->Date and Time->Times in the weblog should differ by:
<your-value-here>

It does not account for DST, which can be fixed, I guess.


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:11:20 -0500, Eric A. Meyer <eric at meyerweb.com> wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
>     I was looking for a way last night to set WP so it spit out dates
> based on my time zone, and couldn't find one.  Here's the problem:
> the server meyerweb.com is running on is set to UTC, even though the
> server's nowhere near Greenwich.  That's understandable, but it means
> that if I do something like this:
> 
>     <?php the_time('l, j F Y :: Hi T'); ?>
> 
> ...then when I post at 7:13:21pm Eastern Standard Time, the post will
> be marked as 'Thursday, 27 January 2005 :: 1913 UTC'.  Which is
> wrong, because that was five hours before I posted.
>     Worse still, the RSS feed will say the following:
> 
>     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
> 
> ...even though I posted from -0500.  This will mess up the sorting in
> aggregators, among other problems.
>     Even more fun, I'm in location that observes Daylight Savings Time
> ("summer time"), so depending on the time of year my UTC offset will
> be either -0500 or -0400.
>     Basically, I want my displayed times and feed times to reflect my
> local TUC offset correctly.  I don't want to have to adjust the
> offset every time Daylight Savings comes and goes.  So basically, I
> want to have WP be aware of the time zone I'm in, instead of the time
> zone set for the server.  How can I do this, or is it not really
> possible short of altering WP (either via plugin or direct hacking)?
>     An extra bonus would be the easy ability to just tell WP what time
> zone I'm posting from-- this will become important later this year
> when I'm in Japan for WWW2005-- and have it handle that
> automatically.  But absent that, I'll take the ability to be set to
> one specific time zone, and not have to worry about it again.
> 
> --
> Eric A. Meyer  (eric at meyerweb.com)
> Principal, Complex Spiral Consulting   http://complexspiral.com/
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