Hi guys, we are experiencing this same issue on GottaBeMobile.com and are going to switch to another theme because of it until we can sort out a fix.

The issue is that your Published times are localized and don’t include a Timezone offset trailing the time stamp. If you were able to add that it would solve the issue.
Could you please take a look at this document and see that Google is asking publishers to either provide the times in UTC by adding a ‘Z’ at the end of the timestamp or present the local time, but provide an hours offset.
https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=en
In our case, our articles are hitting the Google News index immediately, but showing up as “7 hours ago” in Google’s main web search engine results page. We tried switching to another theme for part of a day and Google immediately began indexing articles in Google News and Google Web search engine results pages with the correct time stamp.
Could you tell me if there’s a way to add the timezone offset into the theme?

If you don’t have a trailing ‘Z’ to indicate that the time is UTC or a time offset, then Google will simply assume that the PublishedDate and ModifiedDate are UTC times in Google SERPs, even if the desired time is showing up in Google News.

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Thanks!!

Lucian – I’ve read this post and others in the form, but the question is never answered (that I can find). Is there a way to just disable this feature? Can I just rename the file “_editor-style.less” or modify another file so it’s not even called and it’s just the standard ‘visual editor’?

I tried to rename the file on a local install of the theme with the demo data, seemed OK, but I wanted to ask the question from you before doing it on our live site.

Thanks