One of the biggest pain points that I have seen for Windows Live Spaces users is the in-ability to change a blog post date (once posted).

Well, for those of you (including me) who have been bitten by this problem more than once, cry no more!!! Windows Live Writer team recently launched their flag ship product (read about it here) that has a "mechanism" to change the blog post date. Here it goes... (don't get scared by the number of steps I have listed below. I have broken the process down in very minute steps).

1. Install Windows Live Writer from here and set it up for Windows Live Spaces and make it point to your space (e.g. Nikhil's space)
2. Click on "Open" (from either File->Open Post... OR the Open button on the tool bar.
3. Select your Space from the list on the left side. There will be a brief wait while the Writer is getting blog posts from your space. You will then be shown your latest 5 blog entries. Let's say you want to edit post #2 which you had posted a week back.
4. Double click on the post. The post opens in edit mode in a new window. There are 2 ways to reach to the "Change date" section - either press "F2" or navigate to the bottom of the page and click onthe "Properties" line.
5. You will see a Date/Time: edit field. Check the checkbox next to the date and update the date/time to what ever you desire. Make sure you do not specify a date greater than NOW.
6. Click on "Publish" at the top on the tool bar.

YOU ARE DONE. It's that's simple. Enjoy!!!