@jeremyschultz,
I’m not seeing that same behaviour on my sites. A little further down the UTC and local blog time are listed – are these correct? So is the UTC time correct and is the blog time your local time?
They appear to both be correct.
Another weird thing–I just logged in and it now says 7pm, which I did not select. Yesterday I selected Twice Daily so it would send an email (it said Next email notification will be sent when your blog time is after: May 31, 2012 @ 2:00 pm) but they never showed up. I can send test emails OK so the email system does work.
I have set it up again for Twice Daily and 2pm and it says:
Current UTC time is: June 1, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
Current blog time is: June 1, 2012 @ 12:16 pm
Next email notification will be sent when your blog time is after: June 1, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
I assume this will then send today (6/1) at 2:00 pm my time. Let me know if this should work.
@jeremyschultz,
Hmm, those settings seem okay, let’s see what happens at 2pm your time.
No emails were sent out at 2pm. I set the thing to send twice daily and it looks like the time setting defaulted back to 7pm again.
I have set some articles so they’re backdated to 8:45 today as the publish date and set the emails to publish at 9am:
Current UTC time is: June 4, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
Current blog time is: June 4, 2012 @ 8:48 am
Next email notification will be sent when your blog time is after: June 4, 2012 @ 9:00 am
But every time I leave the settings page this morning and return, it says 2pm again.
Jeremy
I’m starting to wonder if maybe the server is configured in a way that makes this fail. We have SMTP mail sending out (I can send test email) but these time-sensitive settings just don’t stick or seem to trigger the digest. Could the pseudo-cron functions be a part of it?
OK, we’ve made progress. The server is now calling wp-cron.php every 15 minutes, which was not being called altogether, and I got an email just now (12:35 PM). I’m not sure why it is sending at such an odd time but the digest did go out and it looks good.
I set the digest just now to publish weekly at 9am, and it defaulted to 2pm. I tried some other tests and I’m seeing a pattern–whatever time I set it to publish, when I return to the settings later it’s set five hours later. (1pm > 6pm, 3pm > 8pm, 6pm > 11pm) I think the problem is I’ve been using local time but the drop-down is set to UTC time. So I set it for 4am and I got 9am, which is what I want. Does that sound right?
@jeremyschultz,
It seems like the time difference is always the same. Are you by any chance in a time zone that is 5 hours different from UTC?
Yes, we’re CDT which is UTC – 5 hrs.
One more question: is it possible to set it as a weekly digest without having to wait a week for the plugin to begin sending? We’d like to start our program on Friday the 8th, but it looks like I have to select the weekly setting on the 8th in order for it to work on Fridays, and then we have to wait a full week before it begins.
