Adding/changing post date in theme

My blog is http://www.gamecrimes.com and I just made some posts yesterday to try the theme out but the date shows up as November 2008? Why is this? How do I fix the dates to make it the current date?

Also, for the “Recent News” post, which is automatically the latest post I make, it does not show a date. How do I put a date there?

The theme by the way that I am using is this:

http://www.wpthemedesigner.com/2009/01/13/news-theme/