This one threw me off a bit. For a program that’s highly advanced in a plethora of categories, WordPress has no native support for detecting daylight savings time. Fortunately, there’s a plugin available (called Time Zones) that adds this (usually already added and) basic functionality.

WordPress’s lack of this feature became apparent after Mason’s previous post. Both his post and my first comment to his post where dated an hour into the future. We have since corrected the post times and installed the Time Zones plugin, so now all future posts and comments will contain the proper timestamp.

In my opinion, it is not a good sign to rely on peripheral plugins for adding basic functionality to a program. Plugins should add extraneous and “luxury” functionality. Basic functionality should already exist in the core of the software. Hopefully the WordPress team can fix this in future releases. I guess this is a good reminder that nothing is perfect.

This post time should be around 4:30pm.