Title: Wrong Date on Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Wrong Date on Posts

 *  [Aine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aine/)
 * (@aine)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-date-on-posts-1/)
 * I’m attempting to post entries that are back-dated. I do know how to change the
   Publication Date in the Edit screen and have successfully done so. However, when
   the post is saved, the Publication Date turns into the current date, and this
   current date shows on my entries when what I want is the back date (say, April
   15, 1961). The current date also shows in the console in the right-hand sidebar
   where it says: Published on:, however, when you click Edit there and it opens
   up, it shows the correct date April 15, 1961 in the sliding dropdown.
 * I’ve got the correct time zone offset already set in Settings. That isn’t the
   problem.
 * The same date problem occurs even when using the Default WordPress theme, so 
   the theme isn’t the problem.
 * I am using the SIMILE Timeline plugin. Deactivating the plugin does not affect
   the date displayed on the post, so the plugin is not the problem, and I have 
   no other plugins that should affect the Date display, either on the displayed
   entry or inside the Edit Post console.
 * Try it yourself with WP 2.8.x… back-date an entry to 1973 or whatever and watch
   what gets displayed in the Edit Post screen as well as on your blog post. I haven’t
   tried a future date, so I don’t know if the same problem exists for that.
 * Please help me fix this. Or ask someone who is working on the Core code to look
   into this and fix it up in the next bug release.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-date-on-posts-1/#post-1133321)
 * There is a report of that in [Trac Ticket 10332](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10332)
 *  Thread Starter [Aine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aine/)
 * (@aine)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-date-on-posts-1/#post-1133489)
 * Thank you. I hope somebody fixes this soon. It used to work fine in earlier versions
   of WordPress.

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 * [post date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-date/)
 * [publish date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/publish-date/)

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 * Last reply from: [Aine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aine/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-date-on-posts-1/#post-1133489)
 * Status: not resolved

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