Changing the Date for a Post

This article is about how to change the date of a post in Blogger.  It looks at where the date value is found, and what format is used to display and edit it.

Where is the post date (date/time) value kept?

Each Post (not but each Page) that you create in Blogger has a date and time associated with it.

• You can see the date (but not the time) in the Posts (new interface) or  Edit Posts (old interface) tab.

• You can see the date and time in the Post Editor, by clicking on Post Options link (old interface) or the Published on link (right-hand sidebar in the new interface):

  
How to set the post date (date/time) value

To change the date (or date-time) value for a Post:

1  Open the Post in the Post Editor

2  Click the Post Options link, which is near the bottom left of the page above the Publish button (old interface) or the Published on link (in the right-hand sidebar in the new interface):

This opens up the window to fair various options to facilitate apply to the pole.   The date-time is on the justification.

Initially, the date-time is usual to Automatic:  The pole will be certain a date-time what time the Publish Post button is clicked representing the chief stage.

3  Tick the Scheduled option (old interface) or Set time and stage (new interface), which lets you edit the time.

Understanding the Date format:

Blogger does not (currently) own an option to facilitate lets you usual the format of the time to facilitate is revealed in the Post Options window:  The date-format under Settings / Formatting tab applies to inside posts single.

Therefore in the old (ie pre-Sept-2011) version of Blogger the time survey you will distinguish is in American time format.  This has:

•     The month survey chief,
•     Followed by the generation survey
•     Followed by the day survey

To revolution the time, you need to consume the same order.  For illustration, to usual the time to 3 December 2009,

• the 12 goes first
• then the 3
• then the 09 for 2009

During the modern (ie pole Sept-2011) version of Blogger, they've unconcerned the need to compensate representing American time formats.

Instead, we're revealed a calendar to pick the time from, and it's displayed in with the day chief,  So, representing illustration, 2009-12-03 is revealed representing 3 December 2009.

Unfortunately this makes choosing a time sometime in the precedent intractable.   For illustration to usual the time back to 1998 (which I've had to look after recently representing a historic blog around a choir), you need to look after a lot in life of clicking.   And to nominate matters worse, what time I tried it a link of weeks previously the selected time survey wasn't in reality useful.   Hopefully this is something they'll set-up soon.

Why usual the time?

You may well would like to usual the time if you are giving your blog a interior bleep, or if you would like to schedule a pole to make for live next to a quantity of stage in the upcoming.

Is several other time in sequence held in reserve in Blogger?

You can handiwork improbable the month and day what time a pole was chief available by looking next to its URL: This contains the real thing newspaper month and day.  For illustration, the URL of this pole is

    Http://blogger-hints-and-tips.Blogspot.Com/2009/12/changing-date-for-post.Html

The bolded morsel says to facilitate it was originally available in December (ie the 12th month) of 2009.   This URL is held in reserve even if I revolution the ideals in "Post Date and Time"   (which I'm truly around to look after, to fair what time the article was after everything else updated).

I think it's likely to facilitate Blogger furthermore supplies the exact newspaper time and stage somewhere too (at slightest, to help them resolve DMCA copyright complaints), but don't know several way to access this.