Daylight Savings Time problems?

  • Hi –

    I have recently begun having a problem with duplicate posts, with new posts being generated that are dated one hour after than the original. It would appear to me that this has something to do with daylight savings time, which just began in the US a bit more than a week ago.

    Is there (a) a way to stop these duplicate posts and (b) a method other than keeping the duplicates in the trash in order to prevent them from coming back?

    I am also concerned that this will happen again later in the year when the clocks go back to standard time. (For what it’s worth, my WordPress installation is set on US eastern time, so its clock is going to be changing twice each year.)

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Author C. Johnson

    (@radgeek)

    Hey there,

    Thanks for writing, I’m sorry to hear you have this problem.

    I have some thoughts on probable causes and feasible solutions but I want to do a bit of testing on my development servers before I suggest anything very confidently. Would it be possible for you to provide me with the URL(s) for one or more of the feed(s) where you encountered this problem?

    Thanks,
    -C

    Thread Starter pch101

    (@pch101)

    Belated thanks for following up.

    I don’t run RSS feeds from outside sources directly into FeedWordPress — I have an aggregator/filter that processes everything first — so unfortunately, I can’t help with examples of any specific feeds.

    I suspect that part of the issue is a conflict in time zones between (a) the server that is hosting WordPress, (b) the time zone of the WordPress website and (c) the time zones of the feeds. As it turns out, I had two of these set to one US time zone but the third set to a different time zone that is one hour behind, hence the issue.

    So part of the solution is to make sure that everything is on the same time zone. On shared hosting, the time zone is probably dictated by the hosting provider and can’t be changed by the user, so it’s probably wise to find out the time zone of your server and then make sure that all of the time zones are consistent.

    But changing this hasn’t eliminate all of the duplicates, either. I’m still trying to figure this out, but much of the problem may or may not have anything to do with FeedWordPress. If I find out, I’ll let you know.

    Thanks again.

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