[support] Time Zones

[Fred Jones]

> In D7, we set the site's default time zone (America/New_York for me). Since
> it then displays the correct time, I have to assume that the server is
> running on GMT. Is that correct?

No, that's not correct at all. Most servers will be set to their own
local time zone AFAIK.

> If I read the PHP manual correctly, the strtotime() function will create a
> GMT time. Is that correct?

You can always get real GMT time with gmmktime
http://php.net/manual/en/function.gmmktime.php Compare that to mktime
to confirm.

Fred