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Wordpress Posts Show Date of November 30th, 1999 - Why?!

by magentawave
4 replies
One of my Wordpress sites is wanting to make my posts appear to have been published on November 30th, 1999 at 00:00 time. I try to set the future date and hit save and it still keeps going back to that old date. It only seems to happen when I want to schedule a post to publish in the future.

Does anyone know why this is going on? I googled this and came up with nothing.

I'm using Wordpress 2.7 with Firefox 3.0. I haven't checked it in IE yet.

Any idea's will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author trisario
    ALL posts in there showing November 30th, 1999 ? Check out your server time, it might be way way off.
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Originally Posted by trisario View Post

      ALL posts in there showing November 30th, 1999 ? Check out your server time, it might be way way off.
      No not all posts. It was just posts I was scheduling at future dates. Weird. The time in the General Settings is set the same as all my other sites at UTC-7.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Hi Steve

    That is a mystery!

    The scheduled posts feature of WordPress makes use of wp-cron.php, which in turn is activated periodically by a cron job. Perhaps your servers cron job is not running correctly or the permissions on wp-cron are not set properly?

    Just a thought

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author magentawave
      Originally Posted by mywebwork View Post

      Hi Steve

      That is a mystery!

      The scheduled posts feature of WordPress makes use of wp-cron.php, which in turn is activated periodically by a cron job. Perhaps your servers cron job is not running correctly or the permissions on wp-cron are not set properly?

      Just a thought

      Bill
      Mystery solved! I'm an idiot! What happened is that I was trying to schedule some posts to publish on February 29. And guess what? There is no February 29th!!! Yup, thats right. WP has some default thing where it will backdate your posts to 1999 if you put in a date that doesn't exist.

      Thanks for your input and sorry to bother you with this.

      Steve
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