Title: Scheduled posts publishing early/erratically
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Scheduled posts publishing early/erratically

 *  [robalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robalan/)
 * (@robalan)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/)
 * I’m running into trouble with scheduled posts being published early. Sometimes
   all at once, though they’re scheduled hours apart.
 * I’ve checked and changed server timezone settings, making sure they match up 
   to WordPress’ to no avail. Other issues with scheduled posts in the forum seem
   really outdated, so I wanted to pull it up fresh.
 * Any thoughts?

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/#post-5021483)
 * Who is the webhost?
 *  Thread Starter [robalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robalan/)
 * (@robalan)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/#post-5021493)
 * Media Temple. Has been for a year, but the issue just began. Support techs didn’t
   have any answers as to why it would start doing that.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/#post-5021503)
 * It’s really a server thing. You can try running WP cron manually: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cron-control/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cron-control/)
 *  Thread Starter [robalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robalan/)
 * (@robalan)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/#post-5021513)
 * Does the interval matter, as long as it’s being run through the plugin? Also,
   MT’s kb article for cron jobs says “The cron will use the PST time zone.” — does
   that matter, since the intended post times are in EST?
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/#post-5021525)
 * Try compensating for PST with your scheduled post times. This is really a host
   thing. You need to get more details from MT on what they do.

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-publishing-earlyerratically/#post-5021525)
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