WordPress Pulling Wrong UTC Time, Thus Throwing Off Post Times/Dates

Hello,

It is currently 9:45PM on June 19 in New York and 1:45AM ET UTC time.

However, WordPress is saying that UTC time is 8:45PM, so when I list New York as my local time zone in settings, it incorrectly says that it’s currently 4:45PM ET. This means everything I post is being listed as coming out “four hours ago.”

I tried to bypass the issue by setting UTC+1 as my default time zone, but it doesn’t work. It’s still listing the posts as coming out early. And yet if I try to set the publish time to the “current” New York time, that doesn’t work either. It thinks the time is in the future, so it only lets me “schedule” the post.

This isn’t just affecting my site but also Google results, so I’m worried about lasting ramifications. I have not made any changes to server configuration, plugins, WordPress version, etc since yesterday (when it was working correctly).

I’ve seen some similar issues posted over the past few years, but I can’t find any resolutions on the forum. Hoping someone can help.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by thedevplayer.