Okay, we've changed the exported entry dates. We've imported it and now we publish it, as you can see the publish dates have changed and reflect dates in the earlier month, so this new entry will look like an older one in the earlier months blog.
The original unchanged entry is below, It has the original publish date and comment on it. As you can see I modified the information and played with it a bit before importing it and of course the new publish date shows up in the March "studyingdecay" blog. Because I changed the date but the time stamp was not the most recent March entry, it was merged into the older March blog, but wasn't the latest entry, because the time was actually earlier than some of the March posts. Both TIME and DATE have to be most recent if you want these entries to appear as the latest posts in your earlier blog.
You could even modify the dates in the earlier blog if you wanted to do a massive change in a bunch of dates first. There's a lot of flexibility. If you rename the exported blogs and make sure you've exported them all to your hard drive and work on copies, you can always restore the original blog if there's a problem.
ALSO NOTICE: the Published date is only in march for one of the imported posts, because I only changed the PUBLISHED date for one of the blog entries during my test. If I would have tried to import both of these you can see the first one would have brought the April date which was unchanged during my edit of the XML exported blog. I didn't want to import both of them during this test, so I just imported the 03-31-2009 single post that I changed.
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