AO3 backdating

There is definitely a bug affecting the alteration of publication dates of stories on AO3 with only one chapter. You have to correctly backdate them to the day of original publication at the time of upload, because if you alter them afterwards the changed date simply doesn't show up. At least, to be more precise, it shows up on the story chapter itself, but it doesn't alter the 'completed' date for that story, which is what appears on the list of stories by that author, and nor does it affect the order in which those stories are listed -- so it's entirely possible to have a story which is dated as being written in 2015 when you click on it, but still displayed and sorted in the overall database as having been 'completed' in 2021.

I ended up having to email support and ask for the dates on a couple of my POTO one-shots to be changed at the database end in order to reflect the original publication date, but I really can't keep on doing that time after time again.

( Chapter deletion workaround )