Localized timezones

  • Resolved penguinoid

    (@penguinoid)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    Site Health Tool keeps giving me the warning:

    Your site is not using localized timezones
    Daylight Saving Time (DST) may affect the times used and shown by your site and using a UTC offset, instead of a localised time zone, means that the site does not get automatic DST updates.

    This is correct: my site is deliberately set to UTC since my own location/time zone isn’t really relevant to my site, and I’d rather not have to change it if/when I move. For what it’s worth, where I am currently living (Queensland, Australia) does not have daylight savings time anyway.

    Is there any specific reason related to security or site performance that means I must use my local timezone? If not, is it possible to somehow disable this warning? It is really, really annoying.

    I’m aware of the Site Health Tool Manager, but I guess I shouldn’t use that as it does state that “It should not be used to hide tests which can be fixed.” I could fix this, but I don’t want to unless it’s necessary.

    Thanks!

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • Thread Starter penguinoid

    (@penguinoid)

    Ah, I just found this, which answers my question:
    https://github.com/WordPress/health-check/issues/380

    It seems, despite what the Site Health Tool suggests, having my site set to UTC is not problematic. Having my site set to a UTC offset, rather than a localised timezone, is not great, but the two issues have somehow become conflated.

    I guess I’ll have to just ignore this warning for now.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • The topic ‘Localized timezones’ is closed to new replies.