[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #4710: A small patch to fix future posting

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#4710: A small patch to fix future posting
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 Reporter:  donncha         |        Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  defect          |       Status:  closed     
 Priority:  high            |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk)
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.3        
 Severity:  critical        |   Resolution:  fixed      
 Keywords:  futureposting   |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 westi: Problem with that is that if any sort of failure occurs in checking
 that date, it could stick the post into "future" limbo forever. If the wp-
 cron job doesn't cause it to publish, it won't get another chance.

 wp-cron is already being fired off at the time that the post is supposed
 to publish. What we have here is a data desync, the time on the post and
 the time the cron job publishes it are (were) not in sync.

 An extra redundant date/time check would have indeed prevented this
 problem, but it would probably have caused more problems as well.

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