date() == gmdate() after WP 3.0

I created a simple script to illustration my issue.

echo "date(): " . date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
echo "\n";
echo "gmdate(): " . gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s");

echo "\n\n";

include_once('../public_html/peopleofpublictransit.com/wp-load.php');

echo "date(): " . date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
echo "\n";
echo "gmdate(): " . gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s");

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Output
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date(): 2010-06-22 15:54:01
gmdate(): 2010-06-22 20:54:01

date(): 2010-06-22 20:54:02
gmdate(): 2010-06-22 20:54:02
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/Output
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Notice that date() and gmdate() will be equal after I include wp-load.php.

This was not true before 3.0