It's not quite Irwin Allen class trouble, but ...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFor some functions, WordPress pays attention to local time (there’s a setting for it an everything).\u00a0 For some functions, though, it looks at the server time.\u00a0 This sometimes causes a bit of hilarity, e.g., at the beginning of August my Twitter Tools digest would close itself off at 9:30pm MDT (when I told it to), but would queue the post to publish at 11:30pm MDT (because 9:30pm MDT = 11:30pm EDT, where the server is).\u00a0 If I wanted a Twitter digest for the day, that’s as close as I could do it, and any Tweets I made after 9:30 wouldn’t show up until the following night.<\/p>\n
Notice I said, “at the beginning of August.”\u00a0 As far as I can tell, as of 7 August, something changed on the server end of things, so that now the server time reflects GMT (or UTC).\u00a0 Which means it’s 6 hours off at the moment here in Denver.\u00a0 So Twitter Tools cuts off the nightly Twitter digest at 9:30pm MDT as instructed, but sets up the post to fire off at 3:00am MDT the following day, 6 hours later, complete with the next day’s date stamp.<\/p>\n
This is irksome.<\/p>\n
I have an inquiry in at the Twitter Tools support forum to see if there’s a way to fix this (the system should look at the time that WordPress recognizes, not what the server says).\u00a0 I seem to also recall there’s a way to tweak a PHP module to use a particular time zone.\u00a0 And I need to poke on the WordPress site to see if there’s a way recommended there to resolve this.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, sorry if it sometimes seems like things have egregiously offset time or datestamps.\u00a0 It’s not my intent. Really.\u00a0 I seem to have come unstuck in time …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I’m having a couple of odd problems here at the blog … I have two different widgets that post content here from elsewhere.\u00a0 One is the WordPress “Twitter Tools” plugin, which will post a daily digest of my various Tweets.\u00a0 The other is Digest Post for Google Reader, which generates the Unblogged Bits from … Continue reading “Time Stamped”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/time-tunnel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18342,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/time-stamped-the-sequel.html","url_meta":{"origin":18174,"position":0},"title":"Time Stamped (the Sequel)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Aug-10 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"We have a fix, apparently, for the Twitter Tools datestamp \/ timestamp \/ timezone issue I reported here.\u00a0 Rich Weingartner on the Crowd Favorite forum: I seem to have found the fix for this, and another tweak I make to Twitter Tools to use it, since sometimes my digest would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging - Technical"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging - Technical","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogging-technical"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14435,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/slowly-unraveling-twitter-tools-and-timestamps.html","url_meta":{"origin":18174,"position":1},"title":"Slowly unraveling Twitter Tools and Timestamps","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Apr-09 5:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So a bit ago I decided I wanted to run Twitter Tools giving a daily archive of Tweets on my blog, rather than echoing each one. 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