Hi everybody,
I had the same problem (couldn’t insert my first post ever into db) and solved it like this:
Instead of ‘$post_date’ and ‘$post_date_gmt’ I wrote NOW() into the insert query and it just works fine for me at the moment.
Hint: With NOW() you get the date and the time and in my case it actually did change to gmt – but I don’t know why.
Bye
CoverPearl