OK, let’s see if I can explain what I did. I have not looked into whether this affects security or has other side-code affects, but I have not experienced any myself.
I’ve explained (poorly it seems) on other posts about using the adodb libraries to get around the UNIX epoch. The overview on the download page explains its functionality pretty well.
1. Be very careful, this is base code! Back up all files and database before trying!
2. Download the “adodb Date Time Library” at http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/adodb_date_library
It is a zip file.
3. Unzip this file. Inside you will see 1 file called “adodb-time.inc.php”. This is a php file you will put in a base include directory and reference as an include file from the appropriate php files.
4. Move the file “adodb-time.inc.php” into the “wp-includes” folder of your wordpress installation. Now you will modify the files in this folder that use the date/time functions. The main file that does this is the file “functions.php”. That contains the main time formatting and conversion functions. In this file, the following functions need to be changed:
mktime(…) becomes adodb_mktime(…)
date(…) becomes adodb_date(…)
gmdate(…) becomes adodb_gmdate(…)
There are about 15 lines in this file that need to be changed. [The elipses (…) mean don’t change the parameters].
5. Add a line at the top (around line 3) of the “functions.php” file – to include the “adodb-time.inc.php” file, after the <php> tag:
require_once(dirname(__FILE__).’/adodb-time.inc.php’);
You can add this right under the other line that starts with “require_once”.
6. You can repeat items 4 and 5 for other files that use the date/time functions. Another file is the one that does the calendar function – ‘template-funcitons-general.php’.
7. Be very careful, this is base code! Did I metion that you should back up all files and your database before trying?
