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WordPress post/pages not publishing immediately -> missed schedule instead – CentOS

I experienced strange behaviour of wordpress. Whenever I want to publish a post or page it says "Missed schedule". But I have no intention to schedule. I want to publish something directly.

Some times later (I assume when wp-cron runs) the pages gets published. But this bahaviour is immense problem for me developing the page, as the customizer crashes and is not able to update changes. Usually a "immediately" published post should be published, well, immediately. Never had this issue before on other systems. I do not need the scheduling function at all, but now I am forced to schedule anything?

Setup:
CentOS 7, PHP 7.4, Apache 2.4, MySQL (Fresh Setup of the LAMP Server) Als tried PHP 7.3/MariaDB.
Installation of latest wordpress 5.5.1 without any issues (but also tests with older versions caused the problem)
Check of Servertime vs. WordPress timezone – everything fine here
Standard Theme adter installation, no plugins active!
Checked the rights for apache user, everything fine (755/644)
Checked the "run wp cron" plugins, but thats not solving the issue.

I assume there is some problem with wp-cron or the db but most probably my server setup is missing some dependency/configuration? (But I tried different Tutorials for installation, so must be something very basic…)

Somehow it seems like nobody every experienced this issue, as I googled for hours… Hopefully sombody with more backend experience can explain whats happening here and how to fix it.

Here is a picutre of how the workflow looks like

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    If you are publishing without schedule WordPress will publish it unless something prevents it from happening.
    There is a known issue where if you use localhost server may have issues with Gutenberg so for test purpose try https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/ and see if its fixing it for you. If it does its probably a problem with your server settings preventing the rest api to work or issue with wp-cron.php.

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    Same problem here with all installations of WP in a VPS.
    No useful info on google.
    Somebody has find a workarround: change Centos+plesk to Ubuntu+Plesk. This seems to work fine.

    I have finally found a solution to the problem. Changing the system is not a useful option for me.

    In this forum they explain the problem: here

    And it brings us an explanation in the plesk forums: here

    It is basically a problem in CentOS7, the UTC file is not valid and this causes problems in publishing changes in WordPress.

    The problem is solved by replacing that file "/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC" with a correct copy (I have taken it from another server with CentOS6).

    And everything works correctly.
    You don’t even need to reboot.

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