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November 28, 2005

Deferred Posting

I tried using some deferred posting and it sort of is going haywire. It's posting, but it's not waiting for the designated time. I've got my time set to EST, but the auto-poster seems to be just posting almost anything from the current day that I set up as deferred. Is this a server time issue, or is it me?

It doesn't seem to be posting things I've got deferred until a later day, and it seems to not post something that's got a time set about 6 hours in the future...

Actually, the more I think about it, it does seem to be 5 hours or so off -- I've got code that gets the current date and last night when it was after 8pm my time, the date had advanced to the next day...

Posted by: Ogre at 02:00 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Ogre:

My understanding is the server has been set back to GMT - which is 5 hours ahead of EST. That might well explain it. I'd assume tht Trickle posting must be based on the sever's time zone, as it's a server-centric process, not a per-blog one.

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 28, 2005 03:52 PM

2 Hmmm...

What I'm trying to figure out, then, is what the setting on my blog does where I've set it to EST? I guess that just affects the display time on my blog.

So I could make it work by setting all my times for the deferred posts off by 5 hours...but then all the times posted on the blog would be off by 5...

I could make all my settings GMT and then when I display the times for posts, subtract 5 hours...

Thanks, L&D!

Posted by: Ogre @ at November 28, 2005 03:57 PM

3 You have to have deferred posting (Trickle) enabled on your blog by Pixy first.

Then select primary category, save the post, change the date thingy at the bottom, select [additional categories] button -- one must be 'deferred' -- save post again.

If that doesn't get you working, you'll have to get Pixy to answer...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 28, 2005 11:49 PM

4 Madfish:

His deferred posting is working fine, it's just the actual time that the deferred posts appear that's not what he expects - they're appearing 5 hours ahead of the time stamp he's assigning, which is exactly the offset of his EST from GMT. Hence my suspicion that Trickle's clock is running on Server time, not from the individual blogs' time settings. (Trickle is a server process, not a per blog process.)

Paul

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 29, 2005 01:46 AM

5 Exactly right, Paul. I was hoping Pixie would weigh in to see is this is a setting on my end -- trickle used to work (before the server upgrade), but was offset by 1 hour, not 5 or so.

Posted by: Ogre @ at November 29, 2005 02:45 AM

6 Paul is exactly right.

The previous server was on Texas Time.

With the new server I set it up for Sydney time. Convenient for me, and since all the applications are timezone-aware, it won't actually affect anything.

Hahahahahaha...

So I set it to GMT, which was the most innocuous thing I could think of.

Problem is, while Movable Type kinda-sorta handles timezones, Trickle doesn't know anything about them. And unfortunately you can't get it to post at one time and display another.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 29, 2005 03:25 AM

7 Oh I can't can I? I take that as a challenge. I'm thinking I can use a MT tag to get the post time, place it in a php variable, then subtract 5 hours and display it using php.

Sure, it's messy, but I bet it works...

Thanks for the confirmation, now that I'm sure I know what it's doing, I just have to make it do what I want.

Posted by: Ogre @ at November 29, 2005 03:30 AM

8 Heh. Well, yes, you could do that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 29, 2005 03:50 AM

9 Sorry I blew up... I guess I forgot who I was talking to...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 29, 2005 02:20 PM

10 How do I make those stupid smily thingys???

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 29, 2005 02:21 PM

11 Call me a geek, but I did it.

My blog is now set on GMT, yet it displays all post times in EST. Trickle now posts when I want it to. All I have to remember when writing a post is to add 5 hours to the time.

Oh, and the smily thingys are here:

http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/055053.php

Posted by: Ogre @ at November 29, 2005 03:05 PM

12 Hey Ogre, you should write that up as a "thingy".

Posted by: Eric @ at December 03, 2005 10:13 PM

13 You think there's others who are as completely geeky as me who would want to do that?

Posted by: Ogre @ at December 05, 2005 01:21 AM

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