Plugins using date(‘U’) or time() may …

Plugins using date('U') or time() may have been expecting a timezone offset in previous versions of WordPress, and depending on the server setup this was true. This has changed in 3.0. We now tell PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher to not factor in timezones to ensure maximum portability across PHP versions and server setups, thus you’ll end up with UTC time when using those functions.

Use current_time('timestamp') to get the Unix timestamp with a timezone offset.

TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. references: #9588 #11672 #11665 r12727

#3-0, #dev-notes