# How do I change forum created date?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-change-forum-created-date/356826 "2025-03-11T17:30:07Z")\
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> [@support-bot](#):
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> schema\_migration\_details

YES! That was it! I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what I did, except I’m pretty sure that I figured it out myself. 😿

> [@Falco](#):
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> I dismissed it as an hallucination because I couldn’t believe we would do _that_, but looks like it is indeed true

Yeah. I figured that it was like that because you had to do something in case there were no posts or anything else to base it on.

I suppose someone could add something to `base.rb` that would set that to the oldest post in the post-import stuff that it does.

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