Post scheduling

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  writingeveryday · Member · Mar 1, 2008 at 12:20 am

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  I scheduled a post to appear at 00 UTC 1 March. When I checked about a half-hour early, it was already there. I changed the status to Draft to hide it, which worked. All too well. I changed the status to Published to put it back into Scheduled, but it’s now well past time, and it persists in remaining Scheduled. How do I get it to show up?

  Good thing it’s my first post, but I really shouldn’t have named it “The Post No One will See.”

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  writingeveryday · Member · Mar 1, 2008 at 4:15 am

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  Wait, I think I know what I’m misunderstanding.

  I realize that the timestamp is *stored* in UTC.
  Is the timestamp *displayed* adjusted for your timezone? Even on the Edit Post form?

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  tellyworth · Staff · Mar 1, 2008 at 8:21 am

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  The times on the edit post tab are adjusted for your time zone. Assuming you’ve correctly set the time zone on your Options/General tab, if you want the post to go live at 9am in your local time zone, set it to 9am on the edit post tab.

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  writingeveryday · Member · Mar 1, 2008 at 1:40 pm

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  Got it.
  What threw me off was that changing my timezone does not change the timestamp.

  I should have realized that since I was editing a future post, the timestamp should show when I want it to publish (local time), not when the system thinks I’ve told it to publish. Once I had the right timezone, and left things alone, my post published on time.

  Thanks, tellyworth!