There are many aspects to the time reference.
We collect the created time from Twitter – this is in Unix time.
There are various aspects to time which are out of our control. Your timezone reference can be affected by the following which will create inaccuracies when displaying time.
You will want to look into the following or ask your hosting company or web developers.
- Your server (apache etc.) has a time reference setting – please check it is correct
- PHP has a time reference setting – please check it is correct
- WordPress has a time reference setting – please check it is correct
- Twitter has a time reference setting (in your profile) – please check it is correct
If all these time references matchup and are in sync please let us know so we can investigate further.
I’m having the same issue. I contacted my server support and they changed the timezone stuff. See below their response
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In WHM Home » Server Configuration »Server Time, I set the timezone to Central via the dropdown box (it was Eastern).
In WHM Home » Service Configuration » PHP Configuration Editor, I entered “America/Chicago” into the Date and Time field.
And in /home[…].htaccess I appended the following line:
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SetEnv TZ America/Chicago
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Apache now knows it’s Central time:
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root@host [/home/….]# service httpd status
Apache Server Status for localhost
Current Time: Tuesday, 17-Feb-2015 17:25:02 CST
Restart Time: Tuesday, 17-Feb-2015 17:20:28 CST
Server uptime: 4 minutes 34 seconds
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I made sure my blog and twitter are set to central time as well. The time is still wrong. I did new tweets and same thing 🙁
Any other advice?
It’s actually showing the time as backwards. So the latest tweets are saying more hours ago than the older ones! Again, bottom of http://melbenson.com
What else can I have my server support try? Is anyone else seeing this?
Can you conform you site is connecting to the Twitter API. We have not experienced any issues of tweets in reverse time or added hours?
Hi,
I am seeing the same issue as mebenson. The timestamps are correct but they are assigned to the wrong tweets. I have three tweets in my feed, the top tweet is the newest, but it has the timestamp of the third tweet which is the oldest.
It would appear the site is connecting to the Twitter API, because the text is correct and as I said the timestamps are right, just rendered in the wrong places. I’m using version 3.2 with WordPress 4.1
Can you please tell me why this is happening? Thanks.
We haven’t encountered out of sequence tweets with time stamps, and from the code i’m not sure how that is possible? Out side of that, the tweets when not synced to real time are being drawn from the cache on your WP install and possibly from your cached pages of your site too (if using Total Cache or Super Cache etc.)
Mine is still doing this. melbenson.com and look at my footer. It is indeed going backwards! My server support has made sure my server stuff has the right CST timezone.
My latest tweets, sent minutes ago says 6 hours! After that it says 2, 3, 4 days — which might be correct. But my tweets that I do recently are NOT correct.
