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+/**
+ * WordPress dependencies
+ */
+import { test, expect } from '@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright';
+
+/**
+ * Resolves a path against the site's base URL, preserving any subdirectory
+ * the base URL carries. Root-relative URLs resolve against the origin
+ * alone — new URL( '/wp-cron.php', 'http://localhost/wp' ) addresses the
+ * server root, outside the install — so paths here are resolved relative
+ * to the base URL, normalized to end in a slash.
+ *
+ * @param {import('@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright').RequestUtils} requestUtils The request utils fixture.
+ * @param {string}                                                      [path]       A path under the WordPress root, without a leading slash.
+ * @return {URL} The resolved URL.
+ */
+function siteUrl( requestUtils, path = '' ) {
+	const baseURL = requestUtils.baseURL.endsWith( '/' )
+		? requestUtils.baseURL
+		: `${ requestUtils.baseURL }/`;
+	return new URL( path, baseURL );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reads the server's clock from an HTTP Date header, so scheduling is
+ * immune to clock skew between the test host and the server.
+ *
+ * @param {import('@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright').RequestUtils} requestUtils The request utils fixture.
+ * @return {Promise<Date>} The server's current time.
+ */
+async function getServerNow( requestUtils ) {
+	// `doing_wp_cron` makes spawn_cron() return early, so reading the clock
+	// cannot take the doing_cron lock. See driveCron() for why that matters.
+	const url = siteUrl( requestUtils );
+	url.searchParams.set( 'doing_wp_cron', '1' );
+
+	const response = await requestUtils.request.get( url.toString() );
+	const dateHeader = response.headers().date;
+	if ( ! dateHeader ) {
+		throw new Error(
+			'The response had no Date header to read the server clock from.'
+		);
+	}
+	return new Date( dateHeader );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Formats a date for the REST API with an explicit UTC designator, so
+ * the value cannot be reinterpreted against another timezone.
+ *
+ * @param {Date} date The date to format.
+ * @return {string} The formatted GMT date string.
+ */
+function toRestDateGmt( date ) {
+	return date.toISOString().slice( 0, 19 ) + 'Z';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reads a GMT date string returned by the REST API, which carries no timezone
+ * designator, as the UTC instant it denotes.
+ *
+ * @param {string} dateGmt A `date_gmt` value from the REST API.
+ * @return {Date} The instant it denotes.
+ */
+function fromRestDateGmt( dateGmt ) {
+	return new Date( `${ dateGmt.replace( /Z$/, '' ) }Z` );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Asks WordPress to run its due cron events, without waiting for them.
+ *
+ * This is the only request in the spec that may take the doing_cron lock;
+ * every other one carries `doing_wp_cron` so that spawn_cron() returns early.
+ * Keeping the lock under these drives' sole control is what makes the retry
+ * cadence below work: an ordinary request that takes the lock holds it for
+ * WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT and then delegates the run to a loopback request, so
+ * where loopback cannot be made, a stream of polling requests would take the
+ * lock in turn, deliver nothing, and shut every later drive out of it.
+ *
+ * How long wp-cron.php holds the connection open depends on the server: under
+ * PHP-FPM it calls fastcgi_finish_request() and answers immediately, while
+ * under mod_php the response waits for every due event to finish. Since one
+ * slow event would then stall the caller for as long as it runs, the request is
+ * given a short timeout and its failure ignored — wp-cron.php sets
+ * ignore_user_abort( true ), so the run continues server-side either way, and
+ * what matters here is only that it was asked to start.
+ *
+ * @param {import('@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright').RequestUtils} requestUtils The request utils fixture.
+ * @return {Promise<void>}
+ */
+async function driveCron( requestUtils ) {
+	try {
+		await requestUtils.request.get(
+			siteUrl( requestUtils, 'wp-cron.php' ).toString(),
+			{ timeout: 5_000 }
+		);
+	} catch {
+		// Timed out holding the connection open; the run itself is unaffected.
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Reads a post's status, including statuses only visible to an editor.
+ *
+ * @param {import('@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright').RequestUtils} requestUtils The request utils fixture.
+ * @param {number}                                                      postId       The post ID.
+ * @return {Promise<string>} The post status.
+ */
+async function readPostStatus( requestUtils, postId ) {
+	const post = await requestUtils.rest( {
+		path: `/wp/v2/posts/${ postId }`,
+		// `doing_wp_cron` makes spawn_cron() return early, so polling cannot
+		// take the doing_cron lock. See driveCron() for why that matters.
+		params: { context: 'edit', doing_wp_cron: '1' },
+	} );
+	return post.status;
+}
+
+test.describe( 'Scheduled Posts', () => {
+	test.beforeEach( async ( { requestUtils } ) => {
+		await requestUtils.deleteAllPosts();
+	} );
+
+	test( 'publishes a scheduled post when its time arrives', async ( {
+		requestUtils,
+	} ) => {
+		// The test spans real time by design: it waits out the post's own
+		// scheduled date, then allows cron long enough to run it. Ninety
+		// seconds of scheduling plus the poll's budget below puts the failure
+		// path past the inherited per-test limit, so triple it — a genuine
+		// failure should surface as the poll's message rather than as a
+		// generic test timeout.
+		test.slow();
+
+		// Schedule the post far enough out to clear the coercion in
+		// wp_insert_post(): a post submitted as `future` is silently stored as
+		// `publish` unless its date is at least MINUTE_IN_SECONDS ahead of the
+		// server's clock, compared at whole-second resolution. Scheduling
+		// exactly a minute out would therefore depend on the insert landing in
+		// the same clock second as the reading it was derived from, which is
+		// not something a loaded machine guarantees.
+		const serverNow = await getServerNow( requestUtils );
+		const post = await requestUtils.createPost( {
+			title: 'Scheduled Post',
+			content: '<p>Published by WP-Cron.</p>',
+			status: 'future',
+			date_gmt: toRestDateGmt( new Date( serverNow.getTime() + 90_000 ) ),
+		} );
+
+		expect(
+			post.status,
+			'the post should be stored as scheduled; `publish` here means its date landed under a minute ahead of the server clock'
+		).toBe( 'future' );
+
+		// Wait out the date the server actually stored, measured against the
+		// server's clock as it reads now, so the wait carries no estimate made
+		// before the post existed. The extra five seconds put the explicit
+		// drive that follows safely past the moment the event comes due.
+		const dueAt = fromRestDateGmt( post.date_gmt );
+		const clockBeforeWait = await getServerNow( requestUtils );
+		const waitMs =
+			Math.max( 0, dueAt.getTime() - clockBeforeWait.getTime() ) + 5_000;
+
+		// Let the scheduled time pass with no requests to the site. Creating
+		// the post was itself an ordinary request, so it may have spawned cron
+		// and taken the doing_cron lock on the way out; a quiet wait longer
+		// than WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT leaves that lock stale by the time the
+		// event comes due, so the first drive below can claim it straight
+		// away rather than being turned away.
+		await new Promise( ( resolve ) => {
+			setTimeout( resolve, waitMs );
+		} );
+
+		// Drive cron explicitly rather than waiting for WordPress to spawn it:
+		// a spawned run is a loopback request to the site's own address, which
+		// not every containerised environment can make.
+		//
+		// Drive repeatedly, on a cadence just past WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT, since
+		// one drive is not guaranteed to reach this post's event. wp-cron.php
+		// runs every due event in timestamp order, and an install has a queue
+		// of unrelated core events — privacy cleanups, do_pings, transient
+		// expiry — already due ahead of anything created during a test. A slow
+		// event in that queue leaves the drive still working when its own lock
+		// expires a minute later, at which point it stops. A later drive
+		// resumes from there, because every event the previous one reached was
+		// unscheduled before it ran.
+		//
+		// This is why the budget below is well over a minute: the recovery path
+		// becomes available exactly when the lock expires, so a timeout equal
+		// to WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT is a dead heat rather than a limit.
+		const driveIntervalMs = 65_000;
+		let nextDriveAt = 0;
+
+		await expect
+			.poll(
+				async () => {
+					if ( Date.now() >= nextDriveAt ) {
+						nextDriveAt = Date.now() + driveIntervalMs;
+						await driveCron( requestUtils );
+					}
+					return readPostStatus( requestUtils, post.id );
+				},
+				{
+					message:
+						'the scheduled post should transition to publish once its date passes and cron runs',
+					intervals: [ 1_000 ],
+					timeout: 150_000,
+				}
+			)
+			.toBe( 'publish' );
+	} );
+
+	test( 'lists a scheduled post in the Scheduled view', async ( {
+		admin,
+		page,
+		requestUtils,
+	} ) => {
+		// Schedule the post far enough out that it cannot publish mid-test.
+		const serverNow = await getServerNow( requestUtils );
+		await requestUtils.createPost( {
+			title: 'Future Post',
+			status: 'future',
+			date_gmt: toRestDateGmt(
+				new Date( serverNow.getTime() + 2 * 60 * 60 * 1_000 )
+			),
+		} );
+
+		await admin.visitAdminPage( '/edit.php' );
+
+		// Switch to the Scheduled status view.
+		await page
+			.locator( '.subsubsub' )
+			.getByRole( 'link', { name: /^Scheduled/ } )
+			.click();
+
+		const listTable = page.getByRole( 'table', {
+			name: 'Table ordered by',
+		} );
+		await expect( listTable ).toBeVisible();
+
+		// The scheduled post is listed with a scheduled date, not a
+		// published one.
+		await expect(
+			listTable.getByRole( 'link', { name: 'Future Post', exact: true } )
+		).toBeVisible();
+		await expect(
+			listTable.getByRole( 'cell', { name: /^Scheduled/ } )
+		).toBeVisible();
+	} );
+} );