[support] Trouble with Relative Times and Filtering a View

[Linda Romey]

Why do you have it filtered? Whatever now is, it will be 24 hours
difference. If you set the post time when you create the content (I assume
that's what you mean), you don't need the filter do you? The content will
post when it hits the time you set.

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:

> Client needs content published to a feed automatically, once every 24
> hours at a particular time. The content has already been created for all
> future posts.
>
> I set it up as follows:
>
> Content:
>
> Item A: Post date set to 4/9 6 PM
> Item B: Post date set to 4/10 6 PM
> Item C: Post date set to 4/11 6 PM
> Item D: Post date set to 4/12 6 PM
>
> I've created the feed in a View.
>
> Number of items to display is: 1
> Sort is ascending on Post date.
> Filter is set to: Post date is greater than now - 24 hours.
>
> This does not work. With this configuration Item A only gets onto the feed
> at 10:01 PM on 4/9.
>
> It seems to work right if I set the filter to: Post date is greater than
> "now - 20 hours."
>
> Clearly this must have something to do with the fact that the site is in
> "EDT" which is UTC - 400. The site uses Drupal 6.25 with Date 2.8. The site
> time zone is set to "America/New York" and "user configurable times zones"
> are "disabled."
>
> Though I seem to have it working, I'm still confused. Can  anyone explain?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shai
>
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