Title: Proper Time Format
Last modified: June 16, 2017

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# Proper Time Format

 *  Resolved [donfink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donfink/)
 * (@donfink)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-time-format/)
 * I’m wondering if someone could give me a quick example of what the proper time
   format should look like when posting with Postie.
 * I am able to post using the date: function,and when I simply specify a date, 
   it seems to work. But when I add a time onto a date in the future, the post gets
   set to post today, offset to four hours from when Postie read the email. The 
   four hours, by the way, corresponds to the offset I have set in (presumably) 
   WordPress.

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-time-format/#post-9246904)
 * Postie uses PHP functions to parse date times. [http://postieplugin.com/faq/specifying-post-date/](http://postieplugin.com/faq/specifying-post-date/)
   provides links to all the relevant formats.
 * You are correct that the “Postie Time Correction” is applied after the date is
   extracted from the message, which definitely could be a problem.
 * The fix might be to set “Use Postie Time Correction” to “No” and ensure you have
   the blog timezone set in Settings: General
 *  Thread Starter [donfink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donfink/)
 * (@donfink)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-time-format/#post-9298177)
 * I found a solution to the above problem, so I thought I would post it here in
   case someone else lands on this post looking for the same answer:
 * I saw this from a replay Wayne Allen made to another poster and tried it. It 
   worked perfectly.
 * My problem was that I could not get Postie to set a publish date and/or time 
   for some point in the future. I would fill out the “date:” parameter, only to
   be repeatedly ignored by Postie. Not matter what I entered after date:, the post
   would publish immediately.
 * According to Wayne, there needs to be a blank line above the line in which date:
   is written. It never occurred to me to do that since I had never seen anything
   mentioning that in the documentation.
 * Anyway, I tried leaving a blank line above the date: parameter and it worked 
   perfectly.
 * I still have to do extensive testing to see if Postie will work in the exact 
   way I would like, but being able to post at some point in the future is a big
   deal for me. Another biggy is to be able to attach images, but I’ve already tested
   that function and it worked perfectly in my case. From now on, when I run into
   a glitch in its behavior, the first thing I’ll try is to place a blank line above
   the offending, non-responsive parameter.

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 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)
 * [time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/time/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [donfink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donfink/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-time-format/#post-9298177)
 * Status: resolved