Code snippet that can be used to set programmatically the node created/changed dates in Drupal 8.
this is not work:
$node->created = "01/10/2020";
to resolve this problem just use strtotime ($EnglishDateTime, $time_now) like this:
$node->created = strtotime("01/10/2020");
Example:
<?php
use Drupal\node\Entity\Node;
/**
* hook_cron()
* @throws \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageException
*/
function mymodule_cron(){
$node = Node::create(['type' => 'article']);
$node->uid = 1;
$node->promote = 0;
$node->sticky = 0;
$node->title= "hello world teste 4";
$node->body = "<strong>hello world teste</strong>";
$node->created = strtotime("01/10/2020");
$node->changed = strtotime("01/14/2020");
$node->save();
}
