Title: Time offset not taking
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Time offset not taking

 *  [scoopman101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scoopman101/)
 * (@scoopman101)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/)
 * Running WP 1.2 on LAMP
    Problem: Offset is still 7 hours off GMT no matter what
   I do. So all posts are 7 hours in the future from MST (Colorado), which is what
   my server is set to. I’ve reset the variable to 7, -7, and even 0 hours in both
   the General Options and Other options. (General BTW doesn’t display the setting.
   Leaves it blank even though it applies it (Bug??).) I even started poking and
   setting in SQL thinking PHP code was faulty. Changed the “time_difference” value
   to a variety of different values. Nothing took. However, the value did show up
   in the admin area correctly. Nothing seems to affect my posts time stamp. Point
   me in the right direction.

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-103794)
 * This might be moot, but you are hitting the Update Settings button when you change
   your settings in each TAB under Options, right?
    Regards
 *  Thread Starter [scoopman101](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scoopman101/)
 * (@scoopman101)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-103810)
 * Yes… “Update Options” button pretty straight forward. I took it as far as modifying
   SQL, ignoring PHP code. Nothing seems to work.
    The only thing that does work
   is “Edit Timestamp”. Where does the post timestamp come from? GMT offset or server
   time? Right now it’s set to 0 (zero) offset from my server. BTW… forgot to mention,
   PHP v5.0.2, Apache 2.0.52 & MySQL 4.0.21 if it makes any difference.
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-103894)
 * You’ve managed to run WP 1.2 with PHP 5.x? I’ve read that lots of people have
   had issues with it. Could be related??
    Regards
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-104060)
 * Yes… but, I switched back to 4.3.9 and same. No matter what I do, every post 
   is set to GMT. I’ve reset my server clock and every post is the same. Driving
   me craze and I can’t believe there’s not a well known bug.
    I’ve poured over 
   the post.php and every setting I can find. Even looked at every SQL table that
   may affect it to see if I can fix it in MySQL. Is there anyone out there who’s
   using LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL & PHP) and WP and not seeing this post time stamp
   issue? I have to believe it’s causing other’s greif.??????
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-104173)
 * I’m having the same problem and I tried the same things, but I couldn’t even 
   figure out for sure where the time offset value was in the MySQL tables. I’m 
   also running WP1.2.1 and PHP5, but I’m using the Apache server that came with
   OSX 10.3
 *  [doctorparadox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doctorparadox/)
 * (@doctorparadox)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-104214)
 * i’m seeing the exact same behavior. running WP1.2, PHP 4.1.2, mysql 3.23.58.
 *  [sphygmos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sphygmos/)
 * (@sphygmos)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-104261)
 * Edit wp-admin/options-general.php
    Find and replace gmdate with date Viola

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/time-offset-not-taking/#post-104261)
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