I use a cool piece of C++ software to handle a lot of blogs and publish directly into the databases. I published a bunch of future posts but noticed they won't publish and, when time comes to go live, they just turn Missed Schedule. This really pissed me off. Took a look at the Wordpress code and noticed future posts get assigned a cronjob [ wp_schedule_single_event($unix_time_stamp, 'publish_future_post', array($post_ID)) ] which is downright stupid! Why don't you just look at the database and publish all posts with future status and date in past.

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