It's always showing posted 1 seconds ago when post_date_gmt is '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

[rana01645]

Summary

When the post_date_gmt value is '0000-00-00 00:00:00' it's always showing posted 1 seconds ago. This fix shows the actual time for the post.

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[westonruter]

So this is only when a post is a draft and you're previewing, correct?

[westonruter]

This actually used to be current_time( 'timestamp' ) before, but it was changed in 39473e3. Its use was discouraged as of WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards#1791.

[westonruter]

The use of time() came from #5450. Why use get_the_time()?

For one thing, it's not passing the $this->post as context.

[westonruter]

Also, showing “1 second ago” seems fine for previewing a draft which has no date/time.

[rana01645]

@westonruter It's not for draft only, In my blog I'm getting this error in published post where post_date_gmt value is not added or updated. I don't know it's only my blog specific issue or not. If Wordpress always update the post_date_gmt value for published post then it's fine, otherwise these changes solved the '1 seconds ago' issue for published post without post_date_gmt value.

[westonruter]

@rana01645 Why would the post_date_gmt not be getting supplied? It should be that once a post is transitioned from the draft status it should get supplied as seen in wp_insert_post():

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/671d2caa29fd1dd13aa64be610f3b503d303685b/src/wp-includes/post.php#L4181-L4197

That is, if the status doesn't have date_floating which are limited to (by default):

• draft
• pending
• auto-draft

Are the posts you're seeing this issue in one of those three statuses (stati)? Are you seeing the issue for posts with the publish status?