Daylight Savings Time, Scheduled Time Shifts with Server

  • Resolved davidpwhelan

    (@davidpwhelan)


    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    This was unexpected behavior, so I thought I’d post. I scheduled a newsletter for today, one day after the US shifts daylight savings. I schedule my posts to go live 15 minutes before the newsletter starts to email. The Newsletter scheduled time changed, apparently due to the server time changing with daylight savings. This meant it went an hour earlier than I had scheduled it (and before the post it pointed it to was scheduled to be published). I would have expected the newsletter scheduled time to remain the same, even if the server’s time changed. I’m sure it’s a relatively rare issue and one easy to work around, but a surprise nonetheless.

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  • Plugin Support Michael Travan

    (@michael-travan)

    Hello @davidpwhelan,

    daylight savings are a nightmare to deal with. I’m talking to our developers in order to give you some more insights on what exactly happened here.

    Michael

    Thread Starter davidpwhelan

    (@davidpwhelan)

    No worries. Now that I know about it, I can plan for it (like just leaving a window of more than 60 minutes between post publishing and newsletter sending). I wasn’t sure if it was a bug or something that you all were aware of. I appreciate the quick response. I really love the plugin.

    Plugin Author Stefano Lissa

    (@satollo)

    Hi, it’s not a bug but something difficult to control. When planned, the newsletter is set with a timestamp but this timestamp, when computed before the DST and used after creates that problem. We need to review if there are smarter functions to be used for this timestamp generation, I’m sure they’re there somewhere.

    As a web developer, I’ve been struggling with PHP time/date formats for many years. I’m NZ based, but my hosting servers are in the USA. Getting my head around the various time shifts (even when only across the US) is nigh on impossible. I usually settle for a “trial and error” approach and hope for the best. Hats off to any plugin developers that can defeat this beast!!!

    Just to add … I monitor all the posts here, but rarely reply. My Newsletter plugin performs beautifully and does exactly what I want it to do with no fuss. Well done!!

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