Any reason I should NOT use historical dates for posts?

  • Hi folks, I am considering a site re organization and want to make sure I am not doing something that will cause trouble later.

    I have a history website with hundreds of transcribed documents – so when I write a post about something that happened on Jan 15, 1893 I just custom date the post to Jan 15, 1893 at 12:00. If there is a second event on the same day, I can date it at 1:00 and so on.

    Even though there was no internet in 1893, WordPress does not seem to mind.
    Also all my posts fall neatly into order and my timelines work.

    Do any of you advanced users and programmers know why this is MIGHT NOT BE a good idea? I never saw any tutorial to do this, I just started doing it and it has worked so far.

    Best regards,
    Marga

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • All dates become historical after a few moments anyway. As long as they work at publishing then they should be fine.

    There are probably a few ‘epoch dates’ and some historical ‘switching from calendaring method’ hiccups that might upset some of this and maybe a really informed admin with some earlier computer background might expound on that but it should be fine.

    I did the same thing on one site. It worked fine all the way back to year 1. There doesn’t seem to be any way to set post dates to BC years.

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