How to automatically compare date from custom post type with current date and change taxonomy based on the result?

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I have a local WordPress website installment. I have custom post type “tours” and a custom taxonomy connected to it called “active-past”. This taxonomy has two terms “active1” and “past1”. Connected to this custom post type I have a custom post field “datum\_polaska” in a date format. I would like to be able to automatically change the term “active1” to “past1” if “datum\_polaska” is older than the current date. How can I accomplish this? I want this to be checked for each post containing the term “active1” only once per day. It’s important that the event is triggered automatically on a time base. I found this answer, but I don’t get how to implement it for my case. I tinkered around with chatGPT (sorry if this insults someone here) and I got these two codes:

function update_tour_status() {
// Get all posts with the “active1” term
$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘tours’,
‘tax_query’ => array(
array(
‘taxonomy’ => ‘active-past’,
‘field’ => ‘slug’,
‘terms’ => ‘active1’
)
),
‘posts_per_page’ => -1 // Retrieve all posts
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);

// Loop through each post and update the term if needed
while ($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
$datum_polaska = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘datum_polaska’, true);
if ($datum_polaska && strtotime($datum_polaska) < time()) {
wp_set_post_terms(get_the_ID(), ‘past1’, ‘active-past’, false);
}
}

wp_reset_postdata();
}

and this

// Schedule the event to run every 5 minutes for testing purposes
add_action(‘wp’, ‘my_custom_cronjob’);
function my_custom_cronjob() {
if (! wp_next_scheduled(‘update_tour_status’)) {
wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘5min’, ‘update_tour_status’);
}
}

I tried using them as 2 separate code snippets but they don’t do anything. Does anyone have any idea what’s wrong with the code? Please bear in mind that I’m not a developer and that I barely understand the concepts in the code. If someone has a suggestion on how to deal with this in some other way I’m happy to hear it.

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