Author time zone does not account for Daylight Saving Time

[mjgardner]

I have my timezone set to UTC-5 (Eastern Time) in the author console's General Settings, and now a recent post of mine is timestamped an hour in the past -- I posted at 1:49 PM and it is stamped 12:49 PM. I'm assuming that this is because I'm currently in Eastern Daylight Time which is UTC-4.

Do I need to manually set the timezone when my clock changes, or can Movable Type do the right thing depending on the date?

[jayallen]

Out of the box, MT ignores Daylight Savings time. The typical workaround is, as you say, to temporarily set the timezone on your author profile to match. If it's really important enough to enough people though, one could develop an MT plugin to seamlessly translate it on the front end. It wouldn't be terribly difficult given the availability of the right CPAN modules on the server.