Bizzare Timezone behaviour in WordPress

  • When I schedule an article to post in the future, WordPress shows the wrong time after saving the article. I use the standard WordPress editor and I have set the correct timezone in the WordPress settings. I set the timezone correctly on a CentOS 7.9 server (which I checked with the “date” command) and I even put an entry in the php.ini file with the timezone as well as at the top of the functions.php file in the theme.

    When I open a scheduled article to edit it, I see GMT time. But when I click to edit the scheduled time, in the boxes that appear, the time is correct. The article listing also shows the correct time.

    However, I keep having missed scheduled posts. The timezone set everywhere is 2 hours ahead of GMT so an article set to publish at 5am instead shows 3am when editing and it misses the publishing schedule.

    None of the solutions posted on this site work. The WordPress is the latest version on PHP 7.4.25.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    I’m unable to replicate the behavior you describe. Scheduled posts get published based on my timezone, not GMT. Does your site get a reasonable level of traffic? Scheduled tasks don’t execute until a request comes in on or after the scheduled time. On low trafficked sites, tasks can be late to execute.

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