Time zone discrepancy

  • Resolved kgagne

    (@kgagne)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    This morning at 9:55 AM EDT, I was unable to log into my WordPress site. Ten minutes later, I could.

    I checked iThemes Security’s Away Mode settings and found it set to be active from midnight to 6 AM: “Please note that according to your WordPress timezone settings your current time is: 6:05 am on Tuesday August 5th, 2014”

    I clicked through to my WordPress timezone settings and found it set to New York: “UTC time is 2014-08-05 14:05:00 Local time is 2014-08-05 10:05:00”

    If my WordPress settings are correct, why is iThemes four hours off?

    -Ken

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • Seen a similar issue to this where the wp-settings.php had been changed so that the

    // WordPress calculates offsets from UTC.
    date_default_timezone_set( ‘UTC’ );

    had a different default timezone set. This should never be changed from UTC.

    It might also be that the setting made in the wp-settings.php file is being overridden, maybe by a another plugin.

    Please note this is _independent_ of whatever may be set elsewhere in your Settings and that there are different mechanisms that can be used to determine the “current” time – all are perfectly acceptable _provided_ the underlying data is consistent.

    Regards

    Thread Starter kgagne

    (@kgagne)

    This turns out to have been caused by a conflict with the Countdown Timer plugin:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/countdown-timer/

    I’ll start a new thread there.

    -Ken

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