Title: (Creation) Date import failes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# (Creation) Date import failes

 *  [hmersch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hmersch/)
 * (@hmersch)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creation-date-import-failes/)
 * Thanks for the great importer!
 * I have one small problem which is especially annoying while initial import: The
   date is ignored 🙁
 * What I see from the source code is that it SHOULD be imported but all my imported
   posts are of current date.
 * Would be great, if someone could fix this?!
 * BR – Henning
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-importer/)

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 *  Thread Starter [hmersch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hmersch/)
 * (@hmersch)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creation-date-import-failes/#post-3359545)
 * The problem does only come up for posts of not-today, thus while initial import.
 * So I had a look at wp_insert_post($post) within the plugin.
    ….which used an “
   option”; ‘post_date_gmt’ => $publish_date …which took me via google to
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_date_gmt-reverts-to-current-date?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/post_date_gmt-reverts-to-current-date?replies=2)
 * So either use ‘post_date’ instead of ‘post_date_gmt’ (thats what I have done)
   or give the gmdate a try.
 * Hope that helps someone …
    BR – Henning

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creation-date-import-failes/#post-3359545)
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