My posts are not displayed chronologically – how can I fix this?

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  electroboris · Member · Jul 31, 2013 at 11:02 am

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  Hi, on http://www.eurasia2013.com I publish regularly. Sometimes I prepare upcoming posts beforehand, creating a draft where I store infos. But all posts are created and published in the order they should appear, chronologically. This has worked great so far, but in the last two days there are posts that don’t follow that order any more. Examples below. How can I fix this? Thank you, Boris

  Examples:
  This post >> http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/vietnam-by-train/
  is newer then this post >> http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/saigon/
  yet appears under it.

  Also this post >> http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/phnom-penh/
  is newer then this post >> http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/angkor-wat/
  yet appears under it.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 31, 2013 at 2:40 pm

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  Hi there, the publication date on this post:

  Vietnam by Train

  …is July 30, which is why it’s displayed below this one published on July 31:

  http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/saigon/

  Is it possible that you published the post accidentally on July 30 and then reset it to be a scheduled post?

  This post:

  Phnom Penh

  …was published on July 27 at 4:50, which makes it a few hours older than this one:

  http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/angkor-wat/

  …which was published on July 27 at 10:48. If you’d like to swap the order, you can change the publication time of one of the two posts.

  Let me know if you have any other questions.

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  electroboris · Member · Jul 31, 2013 at 2:51 pm

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  Hello, thank you for the quick reply. All these posts were created as drafts in in this order:
  http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/angkor-wat/
  http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/phnom-penh/
  http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/saigon/
  http://eurasia13.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/vietnam-by-train/

  They were also published in this order, as you can see here:
  http://screencast.com/t/eXUPLNt8

  Something seems to be wrong with the timestamp registered by WordPress. How can I fix this?
  Thanks,
  Boris

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 31, 2013 at 6:26 pm

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  Hi there, I’d like to try to get some more detail about how exactly you’re publishing these posts.

  When I asked if you’re scheduling your posts, what I meant was whether you’re scheduling your posts in advance and having them publish automatically on a pre-set day and time. Did you click the turquoise “Schedule post” button on each of them and then let them go live automatically by the system?

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

  Or, did you publish these posts manually by coming back to draft posts you’d created and then clicking the turquoise Publish button?

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  electroboris · Member · Jul 31, 2013 at 7:15 pm

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  Hi, I write a draft, edit it a couple of times maybe, and then press the “publish” button manually. I never used the scheduled post feature.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 31, 2013 at 8:14 pm

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  Thanks for clarifying, that’s helpful! I just ran a few tests and haven’t yet been able to replicate what you’re seeing. Every tie I publish a draft post, the date and time changes correctly to the exact date and time I’m pressing the Publish button.

  Would you mind keeping an eye on this, and if it happens again, could you please have a look at the Publish box on the post. When you publish the post, the date and time should instantly change to the current date and time. If that’s not happening, would you mind taking a screenshot of the publish box, and let me know the actual time and date where you are, as compared to what you see in that box?

  For example, this is what the publish box looks like for a post for which I created a draft an hour ago, but just published. It has the current time, since it’s 4:08 pm (16:08) here:

  http://cl.ly/image/1K1p3s020d3f

  Here’s a guide on how to make a screenshot, if you’re not sure: http://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/

  You can upload the screenshot in your Media Library so I can see it.

  Also, could confirm that your time zone is UTC +1, as your site settings show under Settings > General?

  Thanks!