Front-end add post current date is not working

Question

I am using acf_form() function to add/update posts frm the front-end. Everything works fine except the post date. Somehow it is posting a very old date (1970/01/01). I wanted to post the current date instead. Here is my code:

    $current_datetime = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    acf_form_head();
    acf_form(array(
        'post_id'       => 'new_post',
        'post_title'    => true,
        'post_content'  => true,
        'submit_value'  => __("Send", 'acf'),
        'updated_message' => __("Suksess!", 'acf'),
        'new_post'      => array(
            'post_type'     => 'nyhet',
            'post_status'   => 'publish',
            'post_author'   => get_current_user_id(),
            'post_category' => '',
            'post_modified' => $current_datetime,
            'post_modified_gmt' => $current_datetime,
        ),
        'fields'        => array('ingress', 'publisere_kun_pa_lokallagssiden', 'featured_image'),
        'html_submit_button' => '<input type="submit" class="button box-button green save-content" value="%s" />',
    ));

I know that I don't need to set 'post_modified' and 'post_modified_gmt' values if it is for the current date. I tried without those 2, then I tried setting current datetime manually. But it always inserted that weird old date. I am having same problem for updating a post.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '18 at 13:01

WordPress has a number of date/time functions

https://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time

you should need is:

acf_form_head();
acf_form(array(
    'post_id'       => 'new_post',
    'post_title'    => true,
    'post_content'  => true,
    'submit_value'  => __("Send", 'acf'),
    'updated_message' => __("Suksess!", 'acf'),
    'new_post'      => array(
        'post_type'     => 'nyhet',
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_author'   => get_current_user_id(),
        'post_category' => '',
        'post_modified' => current_time( 'mysql' ),
        'post_modified_gmt' => current_time( 'mysql' ),
    ),
    'fields'        => array('ingress', 'publisere_kun_pa_lokallagssiden', 'featured_image'),
    'html_submit_button' => '<input type="submit" class="button box-button green save-content" value="%s" />',
));

for more info :

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_time/

This does not work either. Still posting the 1970 date. – Imrul.H Sep 13 '18 at 13:48 — Imrul.H, Sep 13 '18 at 13:48
You can also use current_time('timestamp') – yogesh chatrola Sep 13 '18 at 17:05 — yogesh chatrola, Sep 13 '18 at 17:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '18 at 12:53

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It looks like 1970/01/01 is your system date. Check out your configuration.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Function date returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current system time if no timestamp is given. In other words, timestamp is optional and defaults to the value of time().

answered Sep 13 '18 at 12:53

Marat Badykov

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No it's not my system date, I checked that. And also same thing happens in a live server. – Imrul.H Sep 13 '18 at 12:59

Front-end add post current date is not working

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