Using Time in Your WordPress Plugin

I just had a rather frustrating experience trying to use a timestamp in a plugin I’m writing.  Even though I have my timezone dutifully set in my php.ini file, as all good PHP 5.3.* developers should, the timestamp that WordPress was giving me in the admin section was for UTC instead of America/New_York.

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Your Money or Your House

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101005/pl_yblog_upshot/rural-tennessee-fire-sparks-conservative-ideological-debate

Okay, I get it. It’s tough times financially for governments as well as people.  And for whatever reason, Gene Cranick of rural Obion County, TN didn’t pay the requisite $75 to the city of South Fulton to allow South Fulton firefighters to save his home.  (No one was hurt, fortunately, but four pets were killed in the fire.)

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