Great post! I didn't realise most of that stuff was in the new version. The improved time difference system sounds great.

@Jacob Santos - Does WP actually process it in GMT+/- ? If that is depreciated then surely they've just programmed it into the WP software without actually using that functionality in the PHP code itself. It wouldn't be hard to go from whatever date format PHP uses to GMT +/- without actually using GMT+/- PHP code. Hopefully that makes sense, not sure I explained it very well!
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