timezones

About Timezone And Post Ranking

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

Wrong Universal Time WordPress

The problem was simple – My wordpress was set up for a general timezone. After picking a city it knew everything about daylight saving time.

When I began troubleshooting this issue, I viewed the lack of a value for gmt_offset as the culprit, and considered the server to be solid. But after I updated the gmt_offset value in the database and the error persisted, I knew I’d been mistaken. An admin had posted to a WP forum indicating that, despite … Read more

I have changed the time zone of my blog and all times of my posts are wrong. How can I fix it?

This is set inside your database and is also used inside PHP settings on the server. Double check the PHP settings if you can control them. There is a timezone parameter that you can enter into PHP.ini (PHP -v shows you all of this). For MySQL… You’d need to look at global setting which I’m … Read more

date() is unreliable in WP since it always resets time zone to UTC and uses its own processing for time zones. date_i18n() is usually preferable WP replacement, but it will also localize output, which might be unwanted. What you want for correct unlocalized output is to: Get data out of WP API without its offset … Read more