If you want to reset the time, you need to set the frequence to something else, and then back to daily at 4am.
That depends on the traffic your site is getting, and the granularity you want to achieve..
If you need to expire piece of content at 15 34, then I suggest setting 15 minutes and clicking Save Changes at any of these times past the 4, 19, 34, 49 minutes..
If you have very high-traffic site with lot of content, then I suggest running it daily at the wee hours of the morning ( or when you have the least ammount of traffic.
It will run complete loop of every post type, so it might take while, and eat up memory and CPU cycles for bit.
Yes, since version 1.3.5, I have included the shorted code of or for those that would like to build it into their template, you can use es ape exp date )...
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Refactored some of the internal code to prevent notices and warnings from populating the error log.
This is BETA thing, sometimes the expiry date time will not save due to error.
If the nonce fails, the script would die, but there's call to function.
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