# Moving posts into an existing topic doesn't keep chronology

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-into-an-existing-topic-doesnt-keep-chronology/21392
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [October 21, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-into-an-existing-topic-doesnt-keep-chronology/21392 "2014-10-21T23:45:42Z")
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### Author: ![UndecidedAdmin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/undecidedadmin/32/212006_2.png) [@UndecidedAdmin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/UndecidedAdmin)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-posts-into-an-existing-topic-doesnt-keep-chronology/21392/16 "2016-03-25T21:57:42Z")

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I just ran into this. We have a small community which uses discourse as a mailing list which had two active threads. Someone replied to thread B with a comment intended for thread A, which had drifted off to a new topic (C). By the time the problem was realized, there were a bunch of comments in thread B about topic C.

So I created a new thread for topic C, and moved all the posts from B, then moved all the posts from A also. But now I have all the later posts from B after the earlier posts from A, which is really confusing.

Is there any way to reset or change an individual posts time? I would be willing to manually set the order of each message if that was possible.

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