Did WP v5.8.1 Break Dates?

  • I just published my first new post (titled “7 RV Maintenance Tasks You Can Easily Do Yourself”) since my site was updated to v5.8.1. I had scheduled it to automatically publish this morning (Sept 15, 2021) at 4:45AM Pacific Time. It didn’t publish.

    At about 6:05AM PT, I edited the post and changed the scheduled publish time to 3:45AM. The “Schedule” button changed to “Publish” and I manually published the post. It’s now live, but it isn’t displaying on my Home page as the first post at the very top (a hero section from my theme that displays the first 5 new posts).

    It’s also not displaying in the proper location (i.e. first post in the top left) in the WP Grid Builder grid further down on the home page.

    BUT… if you’re LOGGED IN to WP, it shows correctly!

    Anyone else seeing any similarly weird behavior? I’m thinking that the WP5.8.1 update must have done something to change the way date-times are stored/retrieved and it’s messing things up… but I’m no expert. ??

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    >> BUT… if you’re LOGGED IN to WP, it shows correctly! <<

    Almost certainly a caching issue.

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    Clear its cache.

    Thread Starter TheRVgeeks

    (@thervgeeks)

    Hey @sterndata – Thanks! I had done that (repeatedly) to no avail. Cleared the WP Rocket cache. Forced the OPCache clearing. Everything. NADA.

    Strangely, at about 3 hours past the originally-scheduled publish time, it SEEMS like things may be working correctly. Still seems date-time related (like some kind of weirdness with DST change or something… even though the change to standard time isn’t due for about a month).

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