sterfry68

That was it?! Wow, amazing how something that simple can trip you up sometimes! Guess I was glossing over the instructions I was reading.

You rock, Man! Thanks.

Ah, must be blocking it somehow. I’ll check my .htaccess file.

Yes, let me move it to a public server so you can see what I’m talking about.

Are you talking about firebug or something like that? I’m not too familiar with that, but I’ll give it a go.

FYI for those who might also run into this problem:

Looks like this is NOT a bug but expected behavior. PHP’s date() function will always return UTC. Should use wordpresses current_time() function instead. Did not know!

You can read more here:

http://core.trac.ww.wp.xz.cn/ticket/23384

Yes, I’m sure. That’s what date_default_timezone_set() does. It changes your application’s timezone from the default set on your server. I checked and both my php.ini file and .htaccess file are set to the right timezone.

This must be a bug if it’s returning UTC for you too.

Anyone know where post bugs?

FYI. As a temporary solution I’ve created this function. I call it every time I need to use my local time (America/Denver).

function zzz_reset_timezone(){
/*the core seems to be changing the timezone to UTC: (wp-settings.php line
* 36) and never changig it back; change it to what it’s set to in the
* options table as a temporary fix.
*/
$current_offset = get_option(‘gmt_offset’);
$tzstring = get_option(‘timezone_string’);

if ( false !== strpos($tzstring,’Etc/GMT’) )
$tzstring = ”;

if ( empty($tzstring) ) { // Create a UTC+- zone if no timezone string exists
if ( 0 == $current_offset )
$tzstring = ‘UTC+0’;
elseif ($current_offset < 0)
$tzstring = ‘UTC’ . $current_offset;
else
$tzstring = ‘UTC+’ . $current_offset;
}

date_default_timezone_set( $tzstring );
//end code for temporary fix
}