Is it possible to change the creation date of a note?

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Yes you are right. It isn’t reliable at the moment. There is a feature request for creation date to be preserved.

Preserve Creation Dates when Using Obsidian Sync

I previously posted about what I thought was a bug, in which a document created on day X on one machine, when synced with Obsidian Sync on a second machine on day X+Y, will display the X+Y creation date on the second machine, but retain the X creation date on the first machine. This poses problems with various Dataview queries (e.g. “on this day”-style queries), as the same query will express different results depending on which machine one is making the query on. This issue doesn’t appear to a…