Title: Default timestamp on new posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Default timestamp on new posts

 *  Resolved [koolkatwebdesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koolkatwebdesigns/)
 * (@koolkatwebdesigns)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-timestamp-on-new-posts/)
 * I have a requirement to automatically set the post time stamp to a particular
   date. I would like for the “publish on” to be preset to this and not publish 
   immediately. The date will typically be the previous Friday.
 * Is there a hook that will allow me to do this?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [koolkatwebdesigns](https://wordpress.org/support/users/koolkatwebdesigns/)
 * (@koolkatwebdesigns)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-timestamp-on-new-posts/#post-2523966)
 * this has been resolved by setting post_date and post_date_gmt

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 * [post date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-date/)
 * [publish date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/publish-date/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-timestamp-on-new-posts/#post-2523966)
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