Setting Your wordpress Blog’s Clock

May 19, 2008 · Filed Under Wordpress Tutorials

For those to whom time and date on a blog post is critical, you need to set your blog’s clock to correlate with your date and time zone. It helps if you know how many hours your time zone is from GMT/UTC time.

On your WordPress Administration Panels, go to Options > General. If you are using wordpress 2.5 you need to go to Settings—>General.

Scroll down to Date and Time.

The current UTC time is shown. Don’t know your UTC time reference? WordPress will help, as will the table below.

Under the Date format you will see Output. The date there is what the date would be if the clock was set right.

Under the Time format you will see Output The time is what the time would be if the clock was set right.

Adjust the hours under Times in the blog should differ by to the correct hours difference, plus or minus, from UTC to your time.

Save the changes and when the panel reloads, check the Outputs to see if they match. If they don’t, add or subtract an hour from your UTC time accordingly.

You can also set the starting day of the week on the calendar, if you use a calendar option on your blog.

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