Publish Immediately

This has probably been an ongoing issue that no one ever seems to have resolved with WordPress: Publish Immediately.

I write a lot of articles, but I don’t publish them immediately. Sometimes I will write them a few months to a year before they actually get published, editing them over the course of the year, publishing other articles before them, sometimes things get pushed back, or whatever the case, and then I’m finally able to publish them.

The issue is: PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY is no longer available after a certain time frame has passed.

When I hit Save, it remembers the LAST DATE I edited the post, yet doesn’t update it to TODAY’s DATE, and no matter how many times I click Save, it will stay on that date. When I click publish, it will publish for THAT date, not TODAY’s DATE.

So lets say I wrote the article in March 2015. I want to publish it now. I click publish today, some day in June 2015. The article publishes as if it were published on March 2015.

I understand this could be useful for people wanting articles to appear older, but this is not what I want.

I could change the date and set it for today, June 11, 2015. But pretty much, I have to either publish it for sometime this morning, or Schedule it for sometime this afternoon. I could try to get it near the exact minute I want it published, but there is no option to PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY (TODAY, RIGHT NOW).

Here is an example of what it looks like:
https://screencast.com/t/4kwKNilve (it says March 19, 2015, but today is June 11, 2015 — why isn’t it updating to today’s date automatically or giving me an option to PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY?)

I wrote the article on or around that date, yet it stays on that date. How do I switch it to PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY always? No, I don’t want to publish it in the past, nor do I want to schedule it in the future, I want to publish it now. Right now. Immediately.

Anyone come up with a fix for this bug?