How to get WordPress Time Zone setting?

if you need the gmt_offset then <?php echo get_option(‘gmt_offset’); ?> this will give you an integer like 2 or -2. and if you need the timezone string use <?php echo get_option(‘timezone_string’); ?> this will give you a string like America/Indianapolis

Are transients garbage collected?

They now are Starting with WordPress 3.7 expired transients are deleted on database upgrades, see #20316 Old answer If someone can’t show me otherwise it seems that transients are not garbage collected after all. What makes it worse is that unlike options they are not guaranteed to be stored in database. So there is no … Read more

GCC -fPIC option

Position Independent Code means that the generated machine code is not dependent on being located at a specific address in order to work. E.g. jumps would be generated as relative rather than absolute. Pseudo-assembly: PIC: This would work whether the code was at address 100 or 1000 Non-PIC: This will only work if the code … Read more