I think I’m going to use python to write the database conversion script. It should be a good learning experience in unit tests and module details. This is in fact a test post to see how WordPress names its entries. Strangely enough, there are 2 date fields in the posts table, one for local time and another for UTC/GMT.
Why didn’t they just use UTC and keep an offset, I don’t know, but I need to figure out how the thing works to write the correct conversion subroutines. . .