Can I edit the date of a topic?

[johnhenry]

Just used the RSS plugin to pull in some topics but I want to backdate them to the actual dates of the RSS entries.

Am I completely missing something or are dates not changeable?

[a_5mith]

@johnhenry Dates in your database are the dates that the post is created on your forum.

[johnhenry]

@a_5mith Thanks. I realize that but is there no way of changing the date of topics in the forum?

[a_5mith]

@johnhenry Technically yes, but I'd have to leave it up to someone like @baris to say if you should. As I'm not 100% what repurcussions it might have.

[johnhenry]

@a_5mith Thanks. I'll see what he has to say.

[baris]

Right now there is no way to change the date of a topic through the forum itself, which means you would have to do the changes in the database.

Alternatively I can modify the rss plugin so it sets the date of the topics to the actual date from the rss entry instead of using the current timestamp.

[johnhenry]

@baris Modifying the plugin sounds good to me. Would that take you a lot of work?
It might be a nice optional setting to use date from RSS entry

[baris]

Shouldn't take that long, I will take a look soonish.

[johnhenry]

@baris Thanks. Appreciate it

[baris]

Give https://github.com/barisusakli/nodebb-plugin-rss/commit/077c60ef16ddb89ecc42204b00a6af7b9cf2b821 a try, added tags and an option to select timestamp.

[johnhenry]

@baris Brilliant. Works perfectly. Thanks so much.

[leksar]

Just in case someone will search for fast solution: if you are using redis-server as DB you can change timestamps with redis-commander:

npm install -g redis-commander
redis-commander

And then you can access your database via http://yourdomain.com:8081