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+/**
+ * WordPress dependencies
+ */
+import { test, expect } from '@wordpress/e2e-test-utils-playwright';
+
+/**
+ * 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 ) {
+	const response = await requestUtils.request.get(
+		new URL( '/', requestUtils.baseURL ).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';
+}
+
+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 (a 65-second quiet wait,
+		// then up to 60 seconds of polling), so triple the per-test
+		// budget: a genuine failure should surface as the poll's
+		// message, not as a generic test timeout.
+		test.slow();
+
+		// Schedule the post shortly into the future, by the server's clock.
+		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() + 60_000 ) ),
+		} );
+
+		expect( post.status ).toBe( 'future' );
+
+		// Let the scheduled time pass with no requests to the site. Any
+		// ordinary request that observes a due event spawns WordPress's
+		// loopback cron and takes the doing_cron lock — and in an
+		// environment that cannot perform loopback requests, the spawned
+		// run never executes, so the lock only shuts out wp-cron.php for
+		// the next minute. A quiet wait leaves the lock free (or stale) the
+		// moment the event is due, letting the explicit wp-cron.php request
+		// below claim it and run the transition deterministically.
+		await new Promise( ( resolve ) => {
+			setTimeout( resolve, 65_000 );
+		} );
+
+		// Drive cron explicitly, once: the request runs due events
+		// synchronously after claiming the lock, with no dependency on
+		// loopback self-spawning. It stays outside the poll below so
+		// polling cannot itself observe a due event, spawn_cron(), and
+		// re-arm the doing_cron lock against a later explicit drive.
+		await requestUtils.request.get(
+			new URL( '/wp-cron.php', requestUtils.baseURL ).toString()
+		);
+
+		await expect
+			.poll(
+				async () => {
+					const updated = await requestUtils.rest( {
+						path: `/wp/v2/posts/${ post.id }`,
+						params: { context: 'edit' },
+					} );
+					return updated.status;
+				},
+				{
+					message:
+						'the scheduled post should transition to publish once its date passes',
+					timeout: 60_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();
+	} );
+} );