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[Aaron Wells <1521008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One tricky thing to consider here, though, is that Mahara is
specifically designed for academic usage, and as such, assessment and
record-keeping are part of the equation. So, for instance, if a student
was supposed to have been writing weekly blog posts, the teacher needs
to be able to see the *real* date the blog posts were created. (This is,
for instance, also the reason why we show a permanent record of where
deleted comments were, and their creation and edit dates.)

So in all, there are several "dates" associated with a Mahara blog
entry:

1. Creation date
2. Publication date (i.e. when it went from "Draft" to "Published")
3. Last edit date
4. Previous history of edit dates (not currently retained)
5. And now this hypothetical editable user date. Let's call it the "display date", like the user "display name".

If we did add an editable display date, I think the best approach would
be:

1. The display date is displayed when we're showing a summary of the
blog entry, and it's used for the "recent journal entries" block, and
other places sorting blog posts by date.

2. When you view a blog entry's artefact detail page, then we display
the additional data: Date created, date published, last edit date.
Possibly down at the bottom, or hidden under an expandable link.

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Title:
  Allow the "date" of a journal entry to be editable by the user

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Spun off from Bug 1519732: "Additionally it would be nice if you could
  edit the date slug for journal entries, as the published date may not
  be the date you want to show."

  I've seen this request come up before for Mahara, and it's worth
  considering because most dedicated blogging platforms have this
  feature. Specifically the idea is that, when you're editing or writing
  your blog entry, along with the description and body there is an
  editable field for its date. The date you enter here is then used for
  sorting the blog posts chronologically, and it's also displayed to the
  users when they view the blog posts.

  One use-case for this is offline experiences entered retroactively.
  For instance, you go on a month-long hiking trip. You write down a
  daily journal. When you get back, you enter that written journal into
  your Mahara journal, and you want the dates on the journal entries to
  match up. (This can be accomplished via the MaharaDroid application,
  but not everyone is able to use that.)

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