# Change Timestamp only for admin?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094 "2016-12-11T16:34:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Manfred\_Bayer-Lemerz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manfred_bayer-lemerz/32/62721_2.png) [@Manfred\_Bayer-Lemerz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Manfred_Bayer-Lemerz)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094/1 "2016-12-11T16:34:40Z")

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Hallo!

When I use the timestamp as admin it works fine.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/7/8706df422114d2c220f8230d2976fe683a415035.jpg)

But as Moderator or User with user level 4 the user sees the menu item as above but when he wants to change the date the error message “There was an error changing the timestamp of the topic.” pops up.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/e/9ea6c76a42b841dbd26a3e075513f1dfb58c1df4.jpg)

As we have a couple oif user which are reenter topics from the old board software we would need this feature also for user with user level 4!

thanks

Manfred

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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: [December 11, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094/2 "2016-12-11T23:48:00Z")

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This is a bug cause if the option does not work for mod we should not even display the option

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### Author: ![Manfred\_Bayer-Lemerz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manfred_bayer-lemerz/32/62721_2.png) [@Manfred\_Bayer-Lemerz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Manfred_Bayer-Lemerz)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094/3 "2016-12-12T05:39:16Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> This is a bug cause if the option does not work for mod we should not even display the option

Or a feature we would like to have the option that user with user level 4 can change the timestamp of a posting.

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### Author: ![nbianca](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nbianca/32/157984_2.png) [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094/4 "2017-03-14T21:09:20Z")

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[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4757](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4757)

This pull requests shows the change timestamp button only for administrators.

According to the [backend](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/guardian/post_guardian.rb#L197), only administrators can change post timestamps.

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094/5 "2017-03-15T02:44:34Z")

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This has been merged. Thanks @nbianca

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-timestamp-only-for-admin/54094/6 "2017-03-15T02:44:37Z")

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