Changing the date of an entry and date formatting

I have a question regarding the organization of posts based on dates

I have a PR posts that I am moving over to my new site that uses modx... I’m using ditto and reflect to do my PR list indexes and such but the date that is associated with the post is the current date. I backdated the posts using publish date, but on new posts I don’t see any reason to set this. When I told Reflect to sort by &dateSource=`pub_date` then all my new posts are showing up as dec 1969. Is there a way to have a "fall back" so if there is no pub_date, to tell reflect to use createdon date? If I don’t set pub_date then all my PR posts show up with dates from last week when I moved them into modx.


Thanks

https://mirror3.cvsdude.com/trac/ditto/codebase/ticket/89

Eeek, reported 5 months ago and no fix huh . Oh well.

I guess for now I will have to tag all new posts with a publish date.

In addtion to the &dateSource parameter, you can add ’sortBy’ in the &dittoSnippetParameters like this...