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When I create an article and I don't publish it, so I could edit the article later and publish it when it's finished, I notice Drupal shows the creation date, not the publishing date.

Is there a way to change it so the items on the front page show their publishing date and not the creation date? Is there a different field in the database for that functionality?

I am using the Workbench module, which gives draft nodes. If nodes are not published, it will display them in a draft list.

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  • may be if you create a revision in contentype settings, this way you have a record on every change.
    – pinueve
    Sep 26 '17 at 5:27
  • How to get published date?
    – steniya
    Sep 26 '17 at 5:33
  • @steniya from the node_revision table I suppose.
    – Gaurav Rajdeo
    Sep 26 '17 at 6:20
  • I checked with node, am getting only published date and changed date. If I take changed date, there is a issue. Suppose record "A" is created on Sept 10 and it is published on Sept 15, then I updated the record on Sept 25. It will display the date as Sept 25 but the record got published on Sept 15. How I can display Sept 15?
    – steniya
    Sep 26 '17 at 6:30
  • would it be acceptable to you to UPDATE the creation date at the time the node becomes published (with the publish-moment being used as creation date)?
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Sep 26 '17 at 8:50
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I think that this module should be fine for Drupal 7:

Publication Date

It adds a field on every node that says Published on: and then the date.

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  • I have 5000 records which are already created. This module is not applicable to those records. It can use in future. Am right?
    – steniya
    Sep 26 '17 at 7:30
  • Ok, yes I think so
    – user72672
    Sep 26 '17 at 7:42
  • You can use this module for existing nodes. It will look for the right date.
    – shelane
    Aug 27 at 11:54

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