Hi There,
I recently published a post on my site at 2pm UK time today
https://www.total-motorsport.com/formula-e-2024-maximilian-gunther-verdict-misano-track/
But when I check to see if the post is on Google/Bing etc it shows the article being published 14 hours ago… which is impossible as it wasn’t even made then.
Can anyone help with this issue?
Thanks
David
Check your XML sitemap to see what time is noted, if applicable, also the meta data of the post for any timestamp; double check the time location setting in the main WP settings; finally, this used to bite us, “server time” may be totally different than “local time” and that might be what is actually be printed with all the post data. Check the ‘example’ output on the WP settings page, to see what time is shown for the time formatting, as if it does not match your actual local time, you may need to adjust that or offset it.
(I don’t work here; just looooong time user.)
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the help.
I checked the code for the page and it says – <meta property=”article:published_time” content=”2024-04-12T13:00:00+00:00″ –
Which is correct (I think). And the server time is UTC, so the same as this.
Also checked the time on WP settings and that is correct as well UTC+1.
I’m still at a loss.
Could be random bug in Google, because let’s face it, they really don’t give a bleep. I know we used to sometimes see an oddity with “scheduled” posts where we would create it at 11:30 and shedule for 7am and somehow Google could see it as 11:30 vs 7:00 which was annoying and turned out to be a Yoast foobar. Cleared up eventually. You can try stuff like resaving your permalinks from the WP settings page to clear transients. Also, look for patterns – is it just the one, or ALL of your posts way out of correct time? No easy answer. Been there, but awhile back.
Yeah, it’s for all posts. They are all appearing as hours old on Google SERPs when they’re only minutes posted.
they are seeing wrong time at site or server level…trick is tracking that dow, and i do not remember how we sorted looking that up…might have been php time setting…i think you can install a simple test.php file in your root to sniff all php settings. that would identify what timezone php is using.
you can try setting via htaccess aloso
https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/php/using-php-directives-in-custom-htaccess-files/setting-the-php-time-zone-in-an-htaccess-file/
