Scheduled posts are publishing in GMT instead of blog-specific timezone

[theSCHAPPY]

Feature Request

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Describe your use case and the problem you are facing

Consider a Wordpress instance using a blog-specific timezone setting (different from a timezone setting in php.ini). If you schedule a post for publishing the blog's specific timezone setting is used for publishing. However, runinng wp cron regularly triggered by a system cronjob, apparently considers publishing times as GMT.

Describe the solution you'd like

Would be great if blog-specific timezone settings could be incorporated for publishing posts. If a manual timezone setting is specified in php.ini, the correct publishing time is derived apparently. The timezone setting in wp-admin/options-general.php read the following from wp_options to derive the blog-specific timezone setting string $tzstring:

• get_option( 'gmt_offset' )
• get_option( 'timezone_string' )

Thanks in advance!