03 Oct 2007 12:11 pm

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What time is it?

4:30!

Actually this post is at about 7:10pm MDT.

In a most frustrating fashion, I’ve been trying to use the WordPress “post by email” feature but the post seemed to just disappear even though the emails did seem to be getting through to the server. Finally, I found them hiding as “scheduled entries” all about 6 hours out. Why???

UTC – MDT = 6 hours

Wanna bet that the email timestamp is MDT and the server is using UTC?

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3 Responses to “What time is it?”

  1. dave on 03 Oct 2007 at 1:28 pm #

    Yup. Sure enough, the system reported the post above to have been made at 12:11 pm. Six hours behind local time. Now to find out how to adjust the time to local in WordPress.

  2. admin on 03 Oct 2007 at 8:36 pm #

    OK, I just reset the offset time in the options to zero. Oddly enough, what WP thinks is UTC is really local. Something weird with that.

    Also I just sent an email and it still has a 6 hour delay. What’s up with that?
    (8:36 pm local)

  3. admin on 03 Oct 2007 at 5:01 pm #

    It was worse than I thought. The system clock was also wrong, but 6 hours the other direction (i.e. 12 offset from actual UTC). Maybe a 12h vs 24h clodk problem when setting up the server?

    I don’t know. So I ran the ntpdate client and got the clock set properly, fixed the offset in WP and now it all seems to work.

    …I think.

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