Hello,
Thank you so much for getting in touch.
Google only supports Universal time or UTC for the sitemap.
There is no option to change the timezone and it does not reveal the country of authors either. This is a global standard.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello Uzair,
Thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t really help. My authors have a right to privacy and they don’t want you to see what time they were working on an article. Accordingly, the date may be displayed, but not the time. If this is not possible – as you said – I would like to set the time to 9am by default when publishing via sitemap.
Is there any way to manipulate the date before publishing in the sitemap via hook? Is there a workaround available?
Best regards
Steffan
Hello,
Please use this filter in your theme’s functions.php to change the time to 9am on all your internal sitemap links:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function( $url, $type, $object ){
$datemodify = date("Y/m/d 09:00:00");
$url["mod"]=$datemodify;
return $url;
}, 10, 3 );
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
