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I didn’t mean “inaccurate” in that sense, vkaryl. I’m just confused because I’m typically used to the GMT -5 but now I’m faced with GMT -4 for awhile, and my expectation is to switch when the UK changes its clocks, but that’s unrealistic for those of us who don’t reside there.

Just FYI: The link is there, but it’s in the center of the page, right on the left side of the “O”.

Check this thread and see if it helps: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/84269?replies=21

Right Les, but I should not be expected to know when Greenwich changes its clocks. I mean, I’m a 7 hour flight away. ??

As far as I’m aware, the Eastern timezone is *always* GMT -5. This year, based on specific changes that are new beginning in 2007, Eastern time is GMT -4 now and will be for another month. Central time is now GMT -5 when it was previously GMT -6, Mountain time is GMT -6 when it was previously GMT -7, and Pacific time is GMT -7 but was previously GMT -8. It affects an entire country based on new changes made by our government.

My point lies more in the fact that I am confused about where WordPress gets this GMT time. Since my local server time *is* correct, how is WordPress finding GMT to begin with and making the [in]accurate GMT assessment?

I know getting the server time could be bad for lots of people, including yourself with a server in California while you reside in the UK. But if the option had something like “your local server time is: 16:00. Do you want to use this time?,” I’d be happy.

Again, I’m still just confused on how WordPress is finding GMT.

I personally use this one:
https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/

It takes some tweaking to get what you want but it’s very doable and easy to implement.

It depends on what kind of theme you’re using. You’d likely want it on your sidebar, but if you have a widgetized theme, you could add the tracking script in one of the “Text” boxes.

Thanks for the clarification, LesBessant. I suppose then that for DST, I’ll just have to force the script to offset -4 hours instead of -5. Then when GMT has its own timezone switch (which I don’t know of), I’ll be in the dark but know how to resolve it from this instance.

I would request, then, that there be some sort of testing that can perhaps get the server time and use that for the post times rather than offsets of GMT. I still don’t know how it’s determining GMT -4, and my server local time is correct for my timezone.

HandySolo, I host on my own server, so I was just going upon what drmike said. My server has the right time. It is 15:32 right now. When I click on “Write” on my blog post, however, it says that the time is 14:32, which is clearly wrong but must be a result of the -5 GMT issue. If I switch to -4 GMT in my General Options, the time gets corrected, but technically, the Eastern timezone is not -4 GMT.

Therefore, it must be a “bug” relating to the DST update (and that’s why I called it the Y2k7 bug) ??

That’s what I said. I was in “General Options” — that’s where “Times in the weblog should differ by” field is located.

I suppose I am waiting for WordPress to update its servers then, so my concern is still valid.

Why don’t you use a plugin, like this one?

https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/

I use that one for my blogs.

You’re going to want the Post Teaser plugin:

https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser

Would this plugin help?

https://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/

Nobody? I’d have really thought that this would have been fixed in v2.1…. why does it do that anyway?

Here’s what I think is happening in one of the instances, because none of my users are reporting the 500 error.

I’m logged in as an admin user (though not as “admin”) and reply to comments on my blog posts. Whenever I do, I get a 500 error.

It’s only when I’m logged in rather than to everyone.

Thoughts?

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I see it on every blog I own, and I have a lot of blogs on many hosts.

Hey all,

Any tips on this? It happens almost every time ??

Thanks for your insights.