Love It, But…

I absolutely love this theme (NewsPress lite). I spent a lot of time choosing a theme,and this is the only one that I have been completely satisfied with.
And it look better on mobile than any other theme I’ve seen.
However, I have two nagging problems with it:
1.) It always displays my most recent posts at the bottom of the page instead of at the top of the page. It displays posts (not comments) in reverse date order (older posts first).
I had thought that this was some error I made in my wordpress setup, but other themes don’t do this. Other themes display newest posts at the top of the page.

2.) It changes the date in the middle of the day, like noon, instead of midnight. I’ve repeatedly set and checked the date/time/timezone settings in WordPress, but the theme still displays the wrong date and day.For instance, at 6:41PM pacific standard time (Los Angeles) on Sunday AUG 16, 2015 the theme was displaying Monday August 17.

I want to purchase the extended/pro version, but first I have to be sure I won’t have these problems.