Support Forums: Approving a post should not reset its date

[SergeyBiryukov]

Approving a post from Spam or Pending queue resets the post date, which should not happen.

Approving a previously spammed or unapproved post does not change its date.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Spam posts appear to be unaffected, only pending posts are. The issue is that ​wp_update_post() overwrites the date for pending posts, unless the post already has a non-empty post_date_gmt.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5685:

Support Forums: Keep the original post date when approving a pending post.

Set a non-empty post_date_gmt for pending posts to prevent wp_update_post() from overwriting the post date on approving.

Fixes #2963.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5690:

Support Forums: Add bbPress ticket reference to Hooks::set_post_date_gmt_for_pending_posts().

See #2963., ​#bbpress3133.