I disabled all the plugins and the problem still exists.
If you’re trying to recreate the issue, the problem doesn’t show up all the time, play around with the save button and editing the content and it occurs at seemingly random times.
Doing some more tests, the post keeps the date of originally created post.
If you change the date before publishing (or clicking save), it keeps the time selected.
To See the bug in action, I’ve created a Screenr recording:
http://screenr.com/aNs7
at the end you can see that after clicking save, it changed the publish date from immediately to the current date.
Have the same issue.. downgrading to 0.7.8 fixed it but whatever is broken should be fixed in the release edition.