I’ve been told by my clients that scheduled jobs are not run some times as expected. I never questioned myself about how wp_cron actually works, I thought it was kinda self-explanatory. But now I doubt it. Codex says that timestamp argument is: the first time that you want the event to occur. This must be … Read more
These are the functions I use in my theme to display the “entry-meta” which includes published and last modified dates (among others) of an article: // Shows Author and Published Date if ( ! function_exists( ‘reddle_posted_on’ ) ) : function reddle_posted_on() { printf( __( ‘<span class=”byline”>Posted by <span class=”author vcard”><a class=”url fn n” href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/54700/%5$s” title=”%6$s” … Read more
How do I get timestamp from e.g. 22-09-2008? 20 Answers 20
I look at the debug.log file a lot while developing, and having all the timestamps in UTC drives me crazy! How can I get them to display in local time? I have my php.ini ‘date_timezone’ value set to ‘America/Los_Angeles’ already. 2 Answers 2 What is the time zone setup in your admin -> settings -> … Read more
I’m using the function echo time_ago() that displays the time like this: 5 days ago what’s the best way to change it to 5d ago ? My research led me to human_time_diff() function located in “formatting.php” So I have tried directly editing the function located at /wp-includes/formatting.php but when I change “hours” to “h” and … Read more
How do you convert a Unix timestamp (seconds since epoch) to Ruby DateTime? 6 Answers 6
Java 8 added a new java.time API for working with dates and times (JSR 310). I have date and time as string (e.g. “2014-04-08 12:30”). How can I obtain a LocalDateTime instance from the given string? After I finished working with the LocalDateTime object: How can I then convert the LocalDateTime instance back to a … Read more
In my experience, getting dates/times right when programming is always fraught with danger and difficulity. Ruby and Rails have always eluded me on this one, if only due to the overwhelming number of options; I never have any idea which I should pick. When I’m using Rails and looking at ActiveRecord datatypes I can find … Read more
I would need to know how much time is left between now and the next time a specifc Cron Job is done. For another answer I built a basic cron inspector plugin which can be found here. Reason I’m asking is that I’m already that wasted from working that I can’t think straight at the … Read more
I am trying to create a timestamp variable in a shell script to make the logging a little easier. I want to create the variable at the beginning of the script and have it print out the current time whenever I issue echo $timestamp. It proving to be more difficult then I thought. Here are … Read more
