Title: Posts keep old published date
Last modified: October 22, 2018

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# Posts keep old published date

 *  Resolved [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shyzer/)
 * (@shyzer)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-keep-old-published-date/)
 * I’ve noticed that despite unchecking the “Preserve Date” option, when my contributors
   submit a revision of a published post, the old date is kept even after I approve
   of the new revision. I have to manually edit the time to today’s date.
 * I saw another thread from a few months ago with a similar problem, but couldn’t
   find a solution: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-not-updating-with-new-date/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-not-updating-with-new-date/)
 * This is occurring on my live site and my localhost dev setup.

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 *  Plugin Author [jamiechong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamiechong/)
 * (@jamiechong)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-keep-old-published-date/#post-10805200)
 * [@shyzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shyzer/)
 * This is working as intended. Although perhaps the setting and its description
   are a little misleading.
 * Without revisionize, if a user edits a post and updates it, the original publish
   date is left unchanged.
 * So the default revisionize behaviour is the same. Creating a revision produces
   a new post with the same publish date as its original. When you publish the Revision,
   the date stays the same.
 * *However – there are cases where users want to use the schedule functionality
   to publish their revision in the future. To do this, they must edit the post 
   date to the future. When the date comes to pass, WP publishes the revision on
   top of the original post. If the setting your refer to is checked, then we keep
   the original date, otherwise we fallback to the date of the Revision/copy which
   is the present date.
 * So in short, this checkbox/setting is really only for the case of scheduled revisions
   and not for normal manual revisions. You or your contributors will have to manually
   change the date when you publish.
 *  Thread Starter [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shyzer/)
 * (@shyzer)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-keep-old-published-date/#post-10805585)
 * Ahhh, that makes more sense then. Thanks for the clarification.

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 * Last reply from: [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shyzer/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-keep-old-published-date/#post-10805585)
 * Status: resolved