[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:  Mon Apr 17 20:39:04 2006
 Severity:  enhancement     |   Milestone:                          
 Priority:  normal          |     Version:  1.5.2                   
    Owner:  ryan            |    Reporter:  anonymousbugger         
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Comment (by masquerade):

 {{{I'm not quite sure what issue your bringing up here. It wouldn't
 retroactively switch times when it became DST on your post in
 Decemeber.}}}

 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.

 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.

 {{{Not to be rude but I think you don't understand DST. With GMT and DST
 are interchangable as long as your have a Date/Time stamp}}}
 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?

 {{{IMO this is not a WordPress problem.}}}
 Agreed entirely.

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