In the bugtracker I suggested to Ilja that we ask the database for a fully formatted date with timezone. We'd basically just write a no-tables SELECT query that used a few date functions, one for each database (we have an example of this already with some other date handling functions).
Unfortunately, time zone support is only added to MySQL in 4.1.3 and higher: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Time_zone_support.html I haven't looked into PostgreSQL yet, but we'll have to find a way to work with MySQL 4.0.x anyhow, so might as well make it all-kludge. How about adding a timezone parameter to the config file? Aaron
