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Hello, I've run into many issues when using publish date instead of create date for articles. IMO using this basic feature without making many fixes to joomla core is not feasible.

1. When a frontend user creates an article with a publishing date in future and saves it - he can no longer see the article, let alone edit it, or change the publishing date. There's a patch for this, it is incomplete, but it works 100% for me after I applied the same changes to article.php

2. Looking at the joomla code - wherever sorting is done by date and the date type can not be specified - only the create date is used. E.g. in com_content/helpers/query.php.

3. Same thing when a date has to be displayed - using 'create' is the norm with no way to use the publish date instead. Two examples are the search results and the RSS feeds.

4. So it's not surprising that many plugins also use only the create date.

To fix most of these issues - it would be enough just to use 'publish_up' instead of 'created' through the code. This will not affect most users who use the 'create' date, because the 'publish' date defaults to the same value as the 'create' date. Being able to specify the date type in more places would also be useful.