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Jri-Creator:

I thought there was something said somewhere here saying HTML content and other static content is cached, but not PHP output. But I could be misremembering things.

You’re correct. However, that’s the part that’s unusual: most systems don’t cache HTML content at all.

Meishin:

Not everyone knows those non-standard US thingy…

Those three letter codes are pretty normal in Europe too. But while many people know that these codes exists, they often don’t know the specific time zone offsets by heart.

UTC-5 would be more clear (no need to remember offsets), but when I use that notation with people I know in real life, they generally don’t seem to know what it means.

Also, EST != America/New_York. New York uses daylight savings time and switches between EST and EDT.

I think the free hosting servers are generally configured as EST. I hate it too, but it’s probably for historic reasons and impossible to fix without breaking many websites.