NeutralAxis

The Daily Top 10 Posts plugin (v0.7) for WordPress has a bug in it where it ignores its timezone setting, thus it starts counting a new day at the wrong time.  Its a simple fix that requires editing one line.

First, in order to set your timezone, you have to edit daily-top-10-posts.php and find the following two lines (lines 96 & 97).

#SET TIMEZONE OFFSET (UTC/GMT).  To know your timezone, visit http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ and click on the appropriate city.  If you live in the Philippines, the offset is +8.
$OFFSET = 0;

Change the 0 to whatever is correct for you.  US Eastern would be $OFFSET = -5;
(High res timezone map at wikipedia)

Unfortunately, doing that won’t accomplish a thing because there’s a bug further into the file.  Look for line 144, (its in the todays_date function), which says:

if ($offset) {

and change it to

if ($OFFSET) {

The case of variables in PHP makes a difference, so when you set $OFFSET earlier, and then check $offset later, you’re checking something completely different that in this case doesn’t exist.  After making this change, the day changes will happen at the correct time, although this plug-in makes no adjustment for daylight savings time.