Trouble with date and posting

  • Good morning,

    Thank you for reading. I’m having a lot of trouble with Ecto -> WordPress blogging, for the date reason. For some reason, maybe I don’t understand it correctly, WordPress’ time isn’t the same as my time no matter what timezone I put. For example, I live in San Francisco but it says:

    UTC time is 2013-03-20 6:18:52 Local time is 2013-03-19 23:18:52

    But it’s not 03/19 at 23:18, it’s currently 03/20/2013 at 7:19 AM.

    Everytime I post, it won’t let me publish the post. I have to open a new post and copy and paste everything in here.

    Any suggestions? Maybe I’m just being oblivious.

    T
    https://www.foodandotherthings.com (I’m not sure if you need my site though. Thank you again!)

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  • What’s “Ecto”?

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    It’s a blogging software. I think the problem is in WordPress though, because I can’t publish the post even when I go to /wp-admin/

    Sorry – can you elaborate on exactly how you are using Ecto with WordPress?

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    I write my post in Ecto, the night before, and set it to post at 5:30 in the morning the following day.

    It usually works, but lately it’s not working. Today it didn’t post, so when I went to WordPress admin and tried to set the post from Scheduled to Published, it wouldn’t let me.

    What happens if you schedule a post manually using WordPress itself (ie not using Ecto)? Is the timestamp correct?

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    Hm, I’m not sure how else to word this. The problem lies in WordPress because the time on there doesn’t match my local time at all. I copied and pasted a snippet of what it says in my wp-admin in my first post, I think that is what’s messing up my posting.

    UTC time is 2013-03-20 6:18:52 Local time is 2013-03-19 23:18:52

    But it’s not 03/19 at 23:18, it’s currently 03/20/2013 at 7:19 AM.

    Even after I send it over in Ecto, WordPress should let me make changes in the admin page.

    What happens if you schedule a post manually using WordPress itself (ie not using Ecto)? Is the timestamp correct?

    You will go to dashboard-general settings and select your local timezone from drop down and then save it. I think that it will work for you

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    Esmi, no. The time isn’t correct. Currently it is 03/20/13 at 12:44 PM, but WordPress is saying if I publish immediately it will be 03/20/2013 at 4:44 (military time I’m assuming). Thank you for troubleshooting this with me ??

    Wprock, it’s set to my local time: Los Angeles. Although that’s not my city, we’re in the same timezone.

    Try using one of the manual time offsets in Settings -> General.

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    Okay, I set it to my local time (-8). And this is what it says:

    UTC time is 2013-03-20 11:52:42 Local time is 2013-03-20 3:52:42

    My local time (in real life) is 12:53 PM

    Try UTC-12

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    UTC-12 makes it 11:58 PM, UTC-11 makes it 12:58 AM. UTC+11 and UTC are both AM, when I would need it to be PM. Is this only a problem with my WordPress? I wonder why it’s acting like this.

    Frankly, I think it’s a server issue. WordPress picks up a base timestamp from the server local time settings. Sounds like your server’s time is totally out of whack. Try asking your hosts about it,

    Thread Starter taraface

    (@taraface)

    Okay, I will e-mail them and let you know. Thank you so much Esmi! I’ll keep you posted.

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