Delay in Scheduled Posts?

I believe your Issue is the UTC TimeZone.

Probably your Host Server is in a different country or TimeZone settings only.

Is very easy to fix, just follow these steps:
Go to Admin of your WordPress -> Settings -> General -> Timezone is set to your Country/City.

It probably will solve it.

You can check if is correctly using the follow function:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/current_time

I’m still having the problem unfortunately. It reads “Missed Schedule” even after I adjusted the times. Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi @terminalny83,

So, in your case, the server was in a different time zone of your country, right?
After changing you still have the same issue? It’s still 20minutes or it has some more time?

Do you know if you have any cache setup on your server? It can be Varnish. Ask for your host support and they might help you.

I tried the time zone and the problem is persisting.

Then I found out that the W3 plug in for the cache was stalling the posts.

I uninstalled it and a few days later it’s still delaying the posts.

I’m very curious what’s causing this problem.

Are all your posts 20minutes later or only if you re-schedule them?
Do you know how to edit your theme and show the seconds also?
<p>Time posted: <?php the_time('Y-m-d H:i:s'); ?></p>

When you check on the database MySQL, your posts are with the correct date?