hello! I’ve seen one of the admins being able to change topic timestamps, and i’ve tried to do this in a testing topic. however, the topic timestamp does not show the “change topic timestamp” feature. [image] i’ve asked the discourse helper bot, and it said that i needed to be a site admin to c…

you need to be an admin on the Discourse Forum to reset-bump-date of a post that opens a topic (OP) if you want to change timestamps of subsequent posts that must be done via CLI

the topic / OP date was found in the topic wrench icon for me, aswell as reset-bump-date

How to change topic timestamps?

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JammyDodger November 7, 2025, 9:22pm 3

It looks like you’re in the post wrench menu and not the topic wrench menu. The change timestamp option should be in there.

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How to change topic timestamps?

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