Dashboard widget shows wrong date

[Zodiac1978]

First reported here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-one-day-behind-in-dashboard/

The dashboard shows for today the date of yesterday. It looks like this is a problem with date_i18n which is just a legacy wrapper for wp_date since WP 5.3.

The user tested it with
date_i18n( get_option( ‘date_format’ ), strtotime( $visit[‘date’] ) );

Which shows the wrong date. And:

wp_date( get_option( ‘date_format’ ), strtotime( $visit[‘date’] ) );

Which shows the correct date (for the site with the problem and a site without the problem).

See also:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/date_i18n/
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_date/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/09/23/date-time-improvements-wp-5-3/

Function is used here:
https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/statify/blob/master/views/widget-front.php#L25
and here:
https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/statify/blob/master/views/widget-front.php#L108