# Changing the TimeStamp of a Post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2017年十一月29日 10:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004 "2017-11-29T10:03:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 10:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004/1 "2017-11-29T10:03:40Z")
Hi,
I’ve used the _Change TimeStamp_ functionality a few times and it has been really useful. From what I can see though, this feature is only available for the _topic_, not a selected reply for that topic.
Can you confirm whether this is the case, e.g. it’s not just something I’ve missed, and if so, would it be worth me posting as a feature request for this? It’s something that I’ve needed to do a few times and have been unable.
Kind regards as always 🙂
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 10:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004/2 "2017-11-29T10:28:52Z")
confirmed.
See also:
> [@A way to reorder posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-reorder-posts/31532/9):
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> Today, I was trying to illustrate a potential use case for Discourse. We have some “weekly update” communications from various teams that are currently sent via email. I wanted to show how this would look if we did this in Discourse instead, so I was going through my inbox and copying/pasting messages into an example topic in Discourse. I wanted to change the dates to match the original email dates. This way the “gaps” and the “timeline” in the progress bar would look more “real”. Would be…
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-edit-timestamp-of-comment-s/73493?u=mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-to-edit-timestamp-of-comment-s/73493)
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 10:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004/3 "2017-11-29T10:37:54Z")
Hi David,
Thanks for the reply and confirmation. I see that it has already been requested so won’t post a duplicate.
For myself it is _needed_ (relative term I appreciate) as I often edit out a _Solved_ topic where the user has simply updated their original, single, post and then marked it as solved in the title. e.g. [Solved]. I prefer that we use the Solved functionality (so that the tick appears etc) and don’t edit the topic titles. As I cannot mark the root post as Solved, I copy and paste their answer into a reply to their post, then change the ownership of the reply to be the original poster. This post can then be marked as _Solved_ and my world is all good again. 🙂
One downside of my approach is that when working through a backlog, the replies that I create are dated based on when I get to them, rather than the date/time of the update to the original topic.
I had hoped to find an option to _Change TimeStamp_ when using the _Select Posts_ functionality. Not entirely sure whether this should allow multiple posts to be changed (as per the _Select Posts_ functionality) or just an individual. The latter feels safer, and for my own (selfish?) requirement is all that I need.
Just thought I’d share the above as a _reason_ as to why being able to change the time stamp of a reply may be useful.
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### Author:  [@markschmucker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markschmucker)
#### Post date: [2019年一月31日 22:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004/4 "2019-01-31T22:36:29Z")
I would like to create a new wiki post and change the timestamp so it moves to the top, as @codinghorror mentioned should eventually be possible. We would use the wiki post to summarize long topics. (Ours is a high-value group and doing ‘real work’ is not an issue.)
> [@Summarize this Topic → Write a Summary for this Topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460/2):
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> You can already sort of do that… either: edit the first post to include the summary edit the second post to be a summary Or, eventually: add another post and then manually. as staff, change the date on it so it sorts under the first post (not currently possible, but I think it should be) The problem is that writing a real summary is real work by real human beings and is very unlikely to get done unless the human being or the topic is exceptional. Having a machine summarize the topic by wr…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2022年二月8日 22:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-timestamp-of-a-post/75004/6 "2022-02-08T22:23:22Z")