Scheduled post published late

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  leeyaray · Member · Sep 24, 2018 at 3:26 pm

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  I had a post scheduled to publish this morning at 1:00am. The activity log says it published at 5:40am instead. The Automattic Status page says that WordPress.com service has been operating normally throughout the last 24 hours. What happened?

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  torres126 · Member · Sep 25, 2018 at 11:57 am

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  Hi there, from my experience, the most common reason on why this occurs is your blog being set to a different timezone than the one you are actually in. Could you please confirm if this is the case?

  Learn how to do so: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/time-settings/

  Thanks! :)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 25, 2018 at 12:09 pm

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  Hi there,

  Of what site are you speaking? The site at http://leeyaray.wordpress.com/ only contains one post, published in 2015.

  Scheduled posts need to be triggered before they actually publish. They’re triggered by the first visit to a site after the scheduled time.

  On a site that gets a lot of natural traffic from search engines and regular visitors, there is almost no delay as a result, but on newer sites that are still building their traffic a delay does sometimes occur.

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  torres126 · Member · Sep 25, 2018 at 12:10 pm

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  @kokkieh I did not know that! Thanks for sharing, I’ll bare that in mind in the future. :)