Cannot Backdate Posts beyond 1970

  • Hi, I want to publish a history blog in the form of a medieval chronicle. For this, I need each post to be published with a 14th-century date (i.e. the date of the event chronicled in the post).
    I am using WordPress 5.01 and Gutenberg, and it seems that I cannot backdate the posts beyond 1970.
    Is it possible to override this limit and really choose any (back)date imaginable for a post ?
    Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by marieservais.
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  • I don’t believe so. There is an entry in wiki that goes over the Unix system time but you may be able to override it with code. Good question and best of luck.

    My suggestion would be to create a custom post type and only use the H1 tag for a date – put it at the top of the post – and that way it will list and display in chronological order. That could be a work around.

    Thread Starter marieservais

    (@marieservais)

    Thanks for your help and ideas! But I fear overriding Unix system time with code is beyond my skill…
    As for your suggested work around, it would be ok for listing the posts, but would not otherwise work with the system as a date variable.
    Thks all the same. I’ll keep searching…

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by marieservais.
    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    There are many reasons for this to not work, but by and large, you’re not going to be easily able to make WordPress deal with dates before the 1900’s.

    If you only want to make a site *look* like it’s from way back in the day, then that’s much easier. Instead of putting things like the_date() or the_time() into your theme, you use a custom field or meta data. You type the date you want into a custom field, like “realdate”, then output it with something like echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'realdate', true);.

    Thread Starter marieservais

    (@marieservais)

    I get it that unfortunately it won’t be straightforward and I’ll have to use a customfield around that problem. I’ll try your suggestion.
    Thanks for your help!

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