[support] Trouble with Relative Times and Filtering a View

[Linda Romey]

OK, I misunderstood. I use node variants in panels to grant access to
restricted content.

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:

> @Linda wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
> No, that isn't how it works. The "post date" has NO control over content
> access; it is the "published" toggle in "publishing options" that controls
> whether something is "published."
>
> In my example, all of the content is being added to the site *in advance*.
> All of the nodes are "published" when they are added, even though they'll
> have "post date" dates way into the future. The site owners know that
> content, being published, will be accessible via Google, etc. even before
> the show up in the RSS. They don't care. They have a MailChimp RSS to Email
> feed and it is important that a new article goes out every day. That's all.
>
> So I *must* do some kind of filter based on "now." As an experiment, I
> tried something which may be simpler, select content with "Post Date less
> than now" and sort Desc. This also did not switch to the new article at
> 6PM. But rather at 9 PM.  For this to work I need to filter on Select
> content with Post date less than now + 3 hours.
>
> I think what is going on is that "Now" is the server time (my server is in
> LA) and the Post date is in Eastern time.
>
> Shai
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Linda Romey <lromey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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