I published a blog post last night but it never appeared on the site. My GitHub Actions workflow kicked in, my commit hit the server, my Cloudflare build completed with no warnings or errors - everything looked good.

The culprit? Timezone mismatch. I’m writing from AEST (+10, I’m in Melbourne), but Cloudflare Pages Workers builds in UTC (“server time”). Hugo saw my future timestamp and politely ignored the post.

The fix: Use hugo --buildFuture as the build command in Cloudflare Pages settings to include posts “in the future”. I’ll consider this a cautionary tale … it’s not the first time timezones have caused me havoc in production.