How do I change the date on a post?

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  coachnani · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:39 am

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  I posted around 11 pm EST on Jan 5, however, when published it shows for Jan 6th. How can I change that to show the appropriate date?

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 8:03 am

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  First make sure that you blog’s timezone is set to yours. You can do this in the WPAdmin Dashboard>Settings>General Settings. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/

  Second, if you’ve already published this post and it isn’t critical to change the date, I would just leave it this time. The post has already been pushed out to RSS feeds and search engines and if you change the date/time on the post, anyone coming in through search engine returns or readers will get a “not found” error.

  If it is critical to change the published post date/time, you can do so in the Classic Post Editor’s Publish module. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/