wp-includes/post.php:5482Publishes future post and make sure post ID has future post status.
$postint|WP_Postfunction check_and_publish_future_post( $post ) { $post = get_post( $post ); if ( ! $post ) { return; } if ( 'future' !== $post->post_status ) { return; } $time = strtotime( $post->post_date_gmt . ' GMT' ); // Uh oh, someone jumped the gun! if ( $time > time() ) { wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'publish_future_post', array( $post->ID ) ); // Clear anything else in the system. wp_schedule_single_event( $time, 'publish_future_post', array( $post->ID ) ); return; } // wp_publish_post() returns no meaningful value. wp_publish_post( $post->ID );}Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-includes/post.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.