I appreciate all MaryE’s work on the adodb hack. It works like a charm and I’m using it. I’m especially thankful for MaryE verifying the specific function files affected.
My way was to do a global search and replace on the whole wp-includes folder, changing getdate(), date(), gmdate(), and so on, converting every date/time call to adodb_xxxxx(). It seems solid, but all hacks make me nervous. Someone in the future may have to work with my legacy code, and I’ll hate being cussed at posthumously.