# Date Added in the Future **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [April 20, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/date-added-in-the-future/233254 "2018-04-20T15:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![pannos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pannos/32/14252_2.png) [@pannos](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pannos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/date-added-in-the-future/233254/4 "2019-07-01T14:55:04Z")
TLDR: Files were added with a date of 2098. This caused the Plex DB to always have these media files as “Recently Added”. Had to go through and “touch” each of them. I recently had the same problem. My “Recently Added” would show the same movies/TV. I thought this was a DB problem and went through a ton of steps to fix what was not actually broken. On a whim, I went a looked at each of the files and noticed they had dates years in the future (I.e 7/21/2098). I had not realized that Plex adds to its database based on the file date rather than the date its added to the database. So to fix this (Linux system), I SSH’d to the files and did a "touch ". That changed the date to today. I then did a find for all files with a future date, and found quite a few of them. I need to do more digging as to what is causing that. One other note: once I changed the date, Plex did not update its DB entry. It kept the old 2098 date. I had to remove them from the folder, rescan the folder to have them removed and then re-add them to have them pick up the new date. Feature request. Can Plex put in a check for any files being added that may have a date well into the future, and then just add today’s date in its place? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/date-added-in-the-future/233254)._