Running WP Cron on specific local time

Question

The scenario is to run insert_post function every midnight (00:00) of local time. Must run daily on weekday.

function add_daily_task(){
    if((date('l', time()) != 'Saturday') || (date('l', time()) != 'Sunday')){ 
        // insert post
    }
}

if(!wp_next_scheduled( 'add_daily_task_schedule')){
    wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'add_daily_task_schedule');
    // how should change time() to meet my local schedule?
}

add_action('add_daily_task_schedule', 'add_daily_task'); 

Answer 1

The function:

time()

gives the UNIX timestamp in the GMT timezone.

So if you are GMT+2 you can use:

time() + 2*60*60;

or if you are GMT-4 you can use:

time() - 4*60*60;

Try replacing time() with mytime() in your code, where:

function mytime(){
    $gmt_offset_in_hours=-2; // for GMT-2 (EDIT this value) 
    return time() + $gmt_offset_in_hours*60*60;     
}

Answer 2

Not sure what is the question, but the use of time() is wrong as it will give you at best the local time of the server and not the local time of the site which takes into consideration the time zone configuration of WordPress.

The function that you should use is current_time.