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When forums are backed up and restored in a new course the posting date information is lost.
All posts are reset to have been posted on Wed, 31 Dec 1969, 07:00 PM (presumably the date field is empty or set to 0).
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| MDL-9829 | backup/restore of front page does not restore most blocks and resources |
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Hi Michael,
that's really strange as this type of lines:
$post->modified += $restore->course_startdateoffset;
seems to work properly, no matter if $restore->course_startdateoffset is set, not set, undefined, null or 0. The results is my tests are that 0 is added in all the previous cases. I've tested that both under PHP4 and PHP5.
Could it be possible for you to send me one small backup file (that is not working in your server) to be able to reproduce the problem here? Perhaps the bug is in backup...uhm...
If you can, please, send it to me privately, I'll use it in my dev-box and destroy it after test, of course!
TIA and ciao, Eloy 
Thanks to one backup file sent by Domingo Gallardo I've been able to trace this issue.
It affected seriously to all the course backups whose format doesn't allow the course start date to be defined (site course page, social format courses...).
It should be fixed and working now for 1.7.2+, 1.8.2+ and 1.9beta.
Thanks and ciao
In this case i was moving forums from the front page (course id =1) to another course. This may be a special case which does not occur
when moving forums from one regular course to another.
The issue goes away if I comment out the lines such as:
$post->modified += $restore->course_startdateoffset; in forums/restorelib.php
leading me to believe that $restore->course_startdateoffset hasn't been set properly and that
there is no check to insure that it is correctly defined.