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28636	Add functions for working with local dates and times	mboynes	SergeyBiryukov	"Since WordPress sets `date_default_timezone_set( 'UTC' )`, working with local dates and times can sometimes be a bit of a nuisance. I'd like to propose adding a couple of functions to replace at least `date()` and `strtotime()`. We can add replacements for others too, like `mktime()` if the interest is there.

I've put together two proposals for accomplishing this, one using `date_default_timezone_set()` to temporarily change the timezone, and another (far more complicated version) using `DateTime`/`DateTimeZone`. I think the former is preferable, unless anyone has any reasons, performance or otherwise, why resetting the default timezone might be a bad thing?

I'm not married to the function names I chose (`wp_date()` and `wp_strtotime()`), so if it would be preferable to name them e.g. `wp_local_date()` and `wp_local_strtotime()`, I'm open to it."	enhancement	closed	normal	5.3	Date/Time	2.9	normal	fixed	has-patch commit dev-reviewed has-unit-tests