Expire Setting For Links Not Working Correctly

  • Resolved websiteguy9000

    (@websiteguy9000)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve been trying to use the expire link setting in Pretty Links Pro.

    I create a new link to expire in 5 minutes as a test. And it doesn’t expire.

    I set the expire date to at least 2 days before NOW (the current time) and it shows as expired in the links dashboard.

    But if I set a link to expire “and hour ago” and save it, it still shows as active.

    When setting the expiration time for a link, I even set one up by clicking the “NOW” button to set the expire time to NOW and saved the link, waiting a minute, and the link still work, doesn’t expire and redirect like I’m setting it to do.

    Very frustrated.

    Any thoughts out there as to what I’m either doing wrong or what I can do to fix this?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author cartpauj

    (@cartpauj)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Make sure you’ve set the correct timezone offset when setting the expiration date/time.

    Thread Starter websiteguy9000

    (@websiteguy9000)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    So here’s what I set in Pretty Links. Right now it’s 3 pm EST in New York, setting the pretty link to expire at noon today, so already expired.

    2017-11-20_1402

    These are the time setting on my WordPress installation

    https://www.screencast.com/t/GzxFmZ6ET

    But while it is currently in New York 11/20/17 at 3:07 pm, the link is not expired.

    https://www.screencast.com/t/lSqyTm8ev

    Very frustating, I’m trying to keep all the time zones the same, EST with UTC – 5:00

    Any suggestions are welcome.

    Thanks

    Plugin Author cartpauj

    (@cartpauj)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    I just did a test, and you might be onto a bug. In my test it was exactly 1 day behind. So if I wanted it to expire at midnight today – I would have to set it for midnight yesterday.

    I’ll run this by Blair and hopefully we’ll get a fix out soon.

    Thread Starter websiteguy9000

    (@websiteguy9000)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hey,

    Thanks! I thought I was losing my mind, it was driving me crazy because it should have been so simple and I couldn’t get it to work.

    I look forward to the fix.

    Regards,
    Steve

    Plugin Author cartpauj

    (@cartpauj)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    It will be in the next release. Contact us through the premium support form and I can get it to you sooner. In the meantime, setting it exactly 1 day early will work.

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