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Fix: Post list table incorrect date for pending and scheduled post.#10059

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@levinbaria levinbaria commented Sep 28, 2025

When rendering the Date column for posts in the list table, this patch changes the behavior
so that:

  • For published and scheduled posts, the column shows the publication date/time (as before).
  • For non-published posts (draft, pending etc.), the column shows the post's last modified date/time.

What changed

In column_date():

  • If $post->post_status === 'publish' || $post->post_status === 'future', show get_the_time() and compute the difference using get_post_timestamp( $post ).
  • Otherwise (non-published statuses), show get_the_modified_time() and compute the difference using get_post_timestamp( $post, 'modified' ).

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40860


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