Submission date resets by itself?

[PriestOfIshtar]

What does it mean when the submission date resets from its original to a more recent date, but nothing else happens?

In my backlog of unpublished chapters, the earliest one's submission date reset to the current date, but it was not scheduled for publication.

I didn't upload a new version or take any other action myself that would reset the submission date.

 

[AlinaX]

I think it's when Laurel checks it and for whatever reason doesn't approve it immediately. Maybe she's changed category or keywords, or added a editor's note. I see it occasionally.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The date of submission is changed by Laurel to the date it will be published. Sometimes, she does make a mistake. Although, when the process to publish runs, sometime around midnight EDT or there about, it will move the item from pending to published or new even if the date is yesterday from when the process runs as it only looks at pending items.