Tag: DST | Something Odd!

There’s nothing like the laughter of your baby to perk up one’s morning after a bank holiday weekend!

WordPress 2.3.1 was released on Friday. The new WordPress MU will be ready soon.
Omry has released a new version of WPMU Plugin Commander to make administrating regular WordPress plugins in a WordPress MU install easier. Here’s the discussion thread. Looks like a very useful tool and I’m glad I was able to help even a little bit!
~~Home owners~~ Mortgage payers deserve some humour too.
New jQuery anti comment spam technique. It’s a prototype. Hopefully it’ll never make it into a plugin! Via Joseph
Matt blogs the new subscriber numbers in Google Reader. Bernie looked at Irish subscriber numbers a while back.
Code Search Sitemaps will allow you to tell Google about public source code on your blog. I should do this with my WordPress plugins!
GIMP 2.4 has finally been released. Well worth the upgrade.
Barry reveals some of the details behind what powers Gravatar now.
How to empty your brain.
Robert had to go to the dentist. I’ve had problems with PRSI in the past too and I’m self employed now so even a regular check up costs €50 or more.
Yes, I wish kids and babies knew about daylight saving time too.
WordPress wins best CMS, beating Drupal and Elgg!

Daylight Saving Time (DST) kicked in this morning in Ireland, the UK and many other parts of the world when the clocks went back 1 hour. The US is next week from what I remember. If your server is using UTC time, check Options->General, the “Times in the weblog should differ by” textbox in your blog and adjust accordingly!

Here’s a discussion on the WordPress.com forums about the issue from last year and I found this extend idea that has already been implemented in the Time Zone plugin, but it only works on UNIX-like systems and if you’re not using PHP’s safe mode.

PHP5 has the date_default_timezone_set function, but not enough hosts are using PHP5 to make that a universal choice. It would be nice if all this was done automatically, but hopefully with the further adoption of PHP5 that will happen eventually.

And don’t forget to check your other gadgets, especially digital cameras. I doubt many of them know anything about timezones!

Reading Material

Hannibal House
The story of a Seattle man who visits Wales, and decides to buy a house there. Great characters, and and a good read!

Protector
An odd and weird science fiction story by Larry Niven. Did not see that ending coming!

Batman: Knightfall
One of my favourite Batman stories, and the story the last Nolan film took inspiration from. Only bettered by the superb Batman: Son of the Demon.

The Golden Compass
First of a three part fantasy/sci-fi series. Some people hate it because of it's anti God message but it's a great read. I found it hard to put down. There's even a Snopes article about the film adaptation.