wp post create with --post_status=future gets published immediately

[brainysmurf]

This started happening with the update to WordPress 3.5 (multisite)

Reproducible:

wp post create --post-type=post --post_title='You are not supposed to be published' --post_content='Blah blah' --post_author=35 --post_status=future --post_date='2013-2-1 7:00' --url={yourblog}

[brainysmurf]

For posts created this way, when you look at the post in the wordpress backend it doesn't seem to indicate that it has been scheduled in any way, simply published. Previous wordpress versions worked as expected: it showed up as scheduled.

[scribu]

1. It's not specific to WP 3.5; it's the same in WP 3.4.
2. The actual problem is that you use an incorrect date format:

--post_date='2013-2-1 7:00'

If you pass the correct format, it sets the post status to 'future', as expected:

--post_date='2013-02-01 07:00:00'

[brainysmurf]

Well that's embarrassing...

[scribu]

No, not really; the docs weren't clear and, in an ideal world, it would work with any reasonable date format.