# Changing ownership updates timestamp
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2016年三月16日 15:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143 "2016-03-16T15:23:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@roarkely](https://meta.discourse.org/u/roarkely)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 15:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/1 "2016-03-16T15:23:23Z")
When you update the owner of a post, it updates the timestamp for that topic.
This was an expected behavior that felt like a bug. If this is not a bug, I suggest we add an option to the change ownership modal dialog to leave the timestamp as-is.
_Background_
We imported a lot of historical conversations into our Discourse instance. Because of the platform we came from, that included a bunch of duplicate user accounts. As part of a general cleanup, we were de-duping those user accounts and changed ownership of posts. That pushed old topics up to the front page. We had to go back and re-adjust the timestamps for all these topics back to get them back in their expected chronological order.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 19:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/2 "2016-03-16T19:30:13Z")
@codinghorror this just keeps coming back over and over. Perhaps the default should be that owner,tag,category,title edits on OP for 1 post topics are always non bumping, configurable via site setting ?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 19:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/3 "2016-03-16T19:58:55Z")
This isn’t what’s being discussed is it?
> When you update the owner of a post, it updates the timestamp for that topic.
Changing the owner of a post is a different function than what you’re talking about @sam.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 20:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/4 "2016-03-16T20:03:53Z")
It’s the same thing, postrevisor does the editing of owner, and same class of change, mod steps in to reorganize old content, same “bug” unexpected bump on topics
I guess this is a bit wider cause it can also be last post in topic
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 20:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/5 "2016-03-16T20:26:26Z")
Not really, why would changing owner change timestamp? That’s just weird.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 21:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/6 "2016-03-16T21:41:34Z")
Fixed per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8577b7e2cc773c5e0cb01e0f219ea528f22d9633](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8577b7e2cc773c5e0cb01e0f219ea528f22d9633)
@roarkely will deploy the change once it finishes building
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年三月16日 21:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-updates-timestamp/41143/7 "2016-03-16T21:42:14Z")