Comment 1 for bug 1521008

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.