[wp-hackers] Trash Emptying Too Fast

[Otto]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:49 PM, David Morris <dvmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had some bloggers complain that after upgrading to 3.0 their blog
> post and comment trash cans are getting emptied faster than 30 days.
> We have only been live on the 3.0 platform for 5 days, so I just
> wanted to see if anyone out there has experienced any issues like
> this. Here is a quote from one blogger:
>
> - We noticed the trash on blogs is getting emptied very quickly,
> making it difficult to monitor blog comments.
> - I'm pretty sure that before the v.3.0.1 upgrade, trash got emptied
> no sooner than 30 days after an item (post or comment) was dumped
> there.
>
> Any ideas why they might be experiencing early trash emptying like
> this? I first suspected that an mu-plugin was the culprit, but I don't
> see any code in our entire source tree that references
> EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS other than the core WP code that sets it to 30.

The webserver's time() is actually being used to determine how old the
data is, which triggers when the trash gets emptied. Are you sure the
server isn't getting its time reset to some wrong value every so
often?

-Otto