# Allow moderators to change topic timestamp

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-change-topic-timestamp/108702
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-change-topic-timestamp/108702 "2019-02-08T18:52:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![southpaw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/southpaw/32/79352_2.png) [@southpaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/southpaw)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-change-topic-timestamp/108702/1 "2019-02-08T18:52:42Z")

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Admin should have the option to permit Moderators to change topic timestamps.

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We have employees tasked with posting specific topics that need to be backdated. Currently, my options are

- Grant these additional employees Admin ❌
- Change the timestamps myself 😫

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Currently, Admin can change a topic timestamp.

 ![timestamp1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/3/83b81fcdfe29863d3a7c32e10f36bbef31773cb4.png)

Moderators cannot. 😿

 ![timestamp2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/0/3045571e42d73dd6ecaa77b56188009a67550c9e.png)

There’s already some granularity as far as Moderator permissions. 🙌

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/2/727562de061ab702ca484c502aed12aa65fec4f4.png)

Could an additional option to “allow moderators to change topic timestamp” be added?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-change-topic-timestamp/108702/2 "2019-02-11T01:05:21Z")

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Since mods can muck with post date by resetting bump I think it is reasonable to allow them to change dates.

@vinothkannans can you extend this so mods can do this. I do feel though we should log that it happened in staff action logs, so confirm there is an entry there.

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-change-topic-timestamp/108702/4 "2019-02-22T09:10:15Z")

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It’s done. Now moderators can change timestamps.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d1bad881eaf06ea2e38d02d70bfe857d7b963da4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d1bad881eaf06ea2e38d02d70bfe857d7b963da4)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-moderators-to-change-topic-timestamp/108702/5 "2019-02-23T05:35:26Z")

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