WordPress and Daylight Savings Time
Yesterday I noticed that the posts to this WordPress blog were an hour off. Very odd. So I looked into the MarsEdit preferences, and then started looking at the WordPress settings as I remembered when the default time of UTC+0 was being first used. What I found was that MarsEdit was OK, and it was WordPress and it's inability for handle Daylight Savings Time that was the real problem. So I did a little digging.
Seems I'm not the first to see this, and they still haven't fixed it. Odd... but the good news was that there was a plugin for WordPress that fixed the DST problem, but it only really worked by setting the TZ environment variable and that meant Unix boxes. No big deal to me, as the host is a linux box, so I picked it up and deposited it in the WordPress plugin directory and then activated it.
Bingo! The timezone could be set to America/Chicago and things seemed to work perfectly. Nicely done. I can appreciate many of the comments on the WordPress web sites that this is not a complete fix for the problem, and I have to agree. It's a hack. A nice hack, but it isn't as universally useful as WordPress itself, and for that, there should be a better fix. But for now... for me... this fixes the problem.