[TYPO3] change crdate field

[JoH]

>>> is there any possibilty to change the crdate (creation date) of an
>>> article other than in the database manually (e.g., using
>>> phpmyadmin)?
>>
>> No. Creation date is not supposed to be modified. May be you can tell
>> why you need this and we can find better solution?
>
> well i order my articles by date on the frontpage and now i want to
> convert some old articles from our previous cms to typo3.
>
> another example: i started a article a week before publishing, but
> want the article to have crdate of the time of publishing.
>
> therefore a changeable crdate field in the page properties would be
> nice (e.g. joomla has this).


The fact that "joomla has this" is no reason to do it the same way in TYPO3.
In fact it's no good idea, since the crdate represents the date when the
record has been created in the DB.
It doesn't matter when you wrote it, or what you want to display as the date
of creation, it's just an internal field.
If some things went wrong you can find out which element was responsible,
who created it and when exactly this happened.
This is why you should NEVER change this field manually, not even with
Joomla.

If you want something like "date of publishing" you could use the start
field to acchieve this.
Nice sideffect: The article will be published automatically at the "date of
publishing".
IMHO this is a much more elegant solution and it's leaving the internal
field crdate as is.

Joey

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