Turns out there was a previous attempt to fix the timezone: date_default_timezone_set(‘America/Sao_Paulo’); was called on the init hook. When later the correct UTC time, local time and timezone were properly set on the server, this caused a conflict. Removing this solved the issue.
WordPress UTC timezone is wrong
You may have to use smart tag {date format=”m/d/Y”}
Wrong Universal Time WordPress
true is for GMT time, try removing it. current_time( ‘timestamp’ ); https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_time/
How to detect and handle the time difference between server and user in WordPress?
How can I detect user’s timezone?
3,840 cronjobs with no action!
WordPress tries to set PHP environment to UTC timezone. Usually it is more reliable to use time zone-aware WP functions, such as current_time(), rather than vanilla PHP functionality.
I think the safest way to handle it is to use the API to get the local time as set in WordPress settings- $today = date( ‘d M Y – D – h:i A’, current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) ); EDIT- apparently current_time also accepts a PHP date string now as of version 3.9, so you can … Read more