Title: Date/time Issue
Last modified: December 17, 2025

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# Date/time Issue

 *  Resolved [grungepopp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungepopp/)
 * (@grungepopp)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-issue/)
 * Seeing a weird issue all of a sudden. When creating or editing a Pod with a date/
   time field, once you save/update it, the time jumps ahead 5 hours. Then on the
   page where the template is displayed, it shows yet another 5 hours from there.
   So, set the time for 12:00 pm, it saves as 5:00 pm, and displays as 10:00 pm.
   We suspect it is related to our time zone, which is GMT -5, but WordPress is 
   set correctly and there is nothing amiss in the php.ini file on the web server.
 * Disabling/re-enabling the plugin does nothing. Clearing the Pods cache does nothing.
   Any ideas?
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 *  Plugin Author [Jory Hogeveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keraweb/)
 * (@keraweb)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-issue/#post-18760665)
 * Hi [@grungepopp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungepopp/)
 * This is indeed timezone related.
   Is the date in the admin interface correct or
   does that change as well?And how are you displaying this date on the page?
 * Cheers, Jory
 *  Thread Starter [grungepopp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grungepopp/)
 * (@grungepopp)
 * [5 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-issue/#post-18761373)
 * The date changes in the admin interface. So when you add a new item (in this 
   case a bid) and select a “close date” using the datepicker and put in whatever
   date and say 12pm, when you hit save, it saves as 5pm.
 * On the front end template, I was just using {@close_date}. For now, we added 
   a custom date function to subtract 5 hours, so it’s actually {@close_date,pods_custom_date_format}
   at the moment.
 * We want the time to be 2pm. So we’re saving them as 9am and then custom formatting
   the template to subtract 5 hours back to 2pm.
 * It doesn’t appear like Pods has updated recently, so we were wondering if you’re
   using some built in WordPress functionality that changed with a recent update.
   Just spitballing there 🙂
 *  Plugin Support [pdclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdclark/)
 * (@pdclark)
 * [5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-issue/#post-18781550)
 * Setting WP Admin > Settings > Timezone to GMT-5 as well as a few other timezones,
   then saving a date/time field in-between and viewing… didn’t change the display
   of the date/time field.
 * Date/time field stores as plain text, e.g., `2026-01-21 12:23:58` without any
   indication of timezone.
 * Because Pods isn’t storing additional timezone information in the field, and 
   because display isn’t effected by site timezone unless added by a plugin or theme:
   if it shows as the correct date as text in wp_postmeta table, but displays differently
   in admin interface after save, there may be an additional plugin filtering date
   output.
   Some functions in the codebase if related to the issue might include 
   apply_filters on any date or meta hooks, strtotime(), set_default_timezone().

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 * Last activity: [5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-time-issue/#post-18781550)
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