Why doesn't Schedule a Post post articles when it's supposed to?

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  alaneggleston · Member · Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 pm

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  I and other authors/editors using WordPress have attempted to use Schedule a Post to publish an article on a specific date and time following the directions on your help page. They don’t always work. Today we used today’s date and the time 04:00 and it didn’t post at all. It posted when I changed the time to 00:01, however. Looks like we may not be using the right time format – a better example in the help section would be useful. Any ideas on why we aren’t posting at the time entered?
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  thegiddygoat · Member · Aug 22, 2012 at 1:12 pm

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  The scheduled post is activated only if someone goes onto your blog.

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  alaneggleston · Member · Aug 22, 2012 at 2:07 pm

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  So someone outside of the publishing process – an outside reader – needs to access the home page after the scheduled time to activate the scheduled posting? Interesting.