Crosspost to Inkwell — Technical Changelog (continued)

03/16/26 — Bug Fixes

Timezone fix for Social Notes title fallback

• Social Notes crossposted to Inkwell were timestamped 4 hours behind the correct local time
• Root cause: $post->post_date is already converted to the site’s local timezone but stored as a plain string with no timezone info — strtotime() was interpreting it as UTC, then wp_date() was converting it again, doubling the UTC offset
• Fix: switched to $post->post_date_gmt (true UTC) with UTC appended so PHP parses it unambiguously, then wp_date() converts it to the site’s configured timezone in a single clean pass