Title: Specifying the Post Date
Last modified: August 5, 2017

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# Specifying the Post Date

 *  Resolved [kencooperjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kencooperjr/)
 * (@kencooperjr)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specifying-the-post-date/)
 * Just started using Postie and having issues.
 * **[http://postieplugin.com/usage/](http://postieplugin.com/usage/)** –> **Specifying
   the Post Date**
    In the sentence “_You can provide an exact [date ](http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php)
   with optional time or a relative date._“. Clicking the date link ([http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php](http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php))
   takes me to a **php Date Formats** page. Am attempting to enter a date format
   and obviously don’t know how these notations work?
 * Created the following email sent to Postie on wordpess site:
 * sUBJECT: t21
    **this is pre start info :start date: dd :status draft The start#
   img2# #img1 caption=’test image1 # #img3 caption=’test image3 # #img5 caption
   =’test image5′ # the end :end
 * 5 images were attached
 * **_RESULTS – IMAGES NOT SHOWN JUST A PLACE HOLDERS_**
 * t21
    date: *dd* :status draft The start <IMAGE 2 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE> as 
   header
 * <IMAGE 1 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE> – no caption
 * <IMAGE 3 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE> – no caption
 * <IMAGE 5 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE> – no caption
 * the end
    <IMAGE 1 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE> test image1
 * <IMAGE 2 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE>
 * <IMAGE 3 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE>
    test image3
 * <IMAGE 4 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE>
 * <IMAGE 5 PROPERLY DISPLAYED HERE>
    test image5′ Filed Under: Uncategorized
 * **_QUESTIONS_**
    1. How do I get the date to work and display the day, or any
   other date notation for that matter. 2. Why does “:status draft” show up. 3. 
   In the email, I added a caption to three of the attached images. No image in 
   the body of the post shows a caption? 4. In the gallery, images 1, 3, 5 display
   the caption – EXCEPT that in caption 5 the last enclosing quote shows up. I left
   the last quote off for image 1, 3 – and it did not show. Your doc shows the entire
   text for the caption is to be enclosed in quotes?
 * Thanks for any help on this long help request – Ken

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/specifying-the-post-date/#post-9399579)
 * Thanks for the questions.
 * >How do I get the date to work
 * By default Postie will use the date from the email, you don’t have to do anything.
   Optionally you can have Postie use the date the email was processed. See the “
   Ignore Email Date” setting.
    The final option is to specify a date in the email
   as described here: [http://postieplugin.com/faq/specifying-post-date/](http://postieplugin.com/faq/specifying-post-date/)
 * >Why does “:status draft” show up.
 * A: because that is what you typed in the email 😉 I suspect you really intended
   to type “status: draft” as described here: [http://postieplugin.com/faq/override-post-status/](http://postieplugin.com/faq/override-post-status/)
 * >In the email, I added a caption to three of the attached images. No image in
   the body of the post shows a caption?
 * Sounds like you may have “Preferred Text Type” set to “html” If that is true 
   and you use the #img# syntax you’re going to get strange results as that syntax
   is for people who can only send plain text messages.
 * Yes the captions should be surrounded by quotes. Not sure about the final quote
   on caption 5. I don’t see this issue on my test system.

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