Time Zones and Site Templates in SharePoint

This little problem had blog entry written all over it. We use a site template created in the SharePoint user interface (not Visual Studio) in several farms. Maybe we should stop that practice as it is starting to slow us down, but that's how it is currently deployed. 

Besides being a pain because the template needs to be re-saved in each site collection in order for our stuff to work right, we also have to do it to set the regional settings because:

• When you save a site template in the SharePoint GUI, it saves the regional settings in the template.
  

Use this to your advantage!

See also my blog entry about how simple and straight forward time zone issues are in SharePoint: http://bobklass.blogspot.com/2008/06/regional-settings-are-simple.html.