Dates Reversed

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  bibliomnomnom · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 5:09 am

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  I am creating a blog for class, so I need my posts to be in order. I posted my first one a few hours ago and my second post a few minutes ago. Both were posted on January 4.2012. My first post lists itself as posted on January 5, 2012 and places itself behind the second post. I’ve tried to alter the date stamp, but it doesn’t do anything. How can I fix this?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 5:33 am

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  Posts will show in reverse chronological order (newest at top). There is no way to change that.

  This out of order thing can happen in the very beginning since the original “hello world” post that you edited would have had a UTC/GMT timestamp as that is the default time zone setting when you first create a site. If you then set the time zone, then the second post would have a timestamp for your time zone.

  You can open the first post (the one that says its on the 5th) and change the date stamp using the procedure outlined here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/

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  bibliomnomnom · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 6:05 am

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  I changed the timezone before posting, so I’m not sure why it did it. All my times are now posting in crazy random ways, but since I am in a completely different time zone than the rest of my class (the school is in CA, I am distance learning from NE) that won’t really matter. I just need the days to be right! Thanks for the link :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 5, 2012 at 6:09 am

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  You are welcome.

  The hello world post was created by the wordpress software in UTC/GMT. Your second post, after changing the time zone, was posted in your local time zone. That is what the issue is. From this point forward your posts will be in order as you post them (newest at top) because they will all be posted with your local time zone setting.