Either Sync Activity Creation Date with Node Authored On or ...

Hi,

I sort of brought up this issue here (http://drupal.org/node/582230) in comment #5 but now experience it in another context. Let me describe my issue with a particular site and then I'll bring up my request:

• I'm using the Feeds module to allow multiple users to import their own external blog posts via RSS feeds.
• The Feeds module virtually always pulls in blog posts that are dated (as in older than "NOW"). Thus, the Feeds module creates nodes and sets the "Authored On" Date to the same date that the original blog post was created on.
• On the same site, I use Activity as a manner of replicating Facebook's activity feed. This is the main display from which authenticated users see content and thus it makes sense for it to be sorted by an Activity's creation date. So I use an Activity View, sorted by Activity Creation Date, to display FBS-statuses and nodes to users.
• The issue then arises when a blog post is displayed within the Activity View that has been pulled in (created) via the Feeds module. The (adjusted) Authored On Date of the node and the Activity are not in sync as the Activity Creation Date is set to that of when the Node was created not the Authored Date.

You might suggest that I simply use sort by "Node Creation Date" in the Activity View but, alas, this does not work when statuses are included in the Activity View. I assume this is because FBS-statuses don't have an Authored On date.

So, my request is to have some means to display Activity items (FBS-statuses, nodes and comments) according to their "authored on" date but also status' creation date. Perhaps this issue might better be solved by adding another db column to FBS-statuses so that they to have an "Authored On" date. I'm definitely not in the position to answer that though so I'll leave that up to you.

Thanks again for all your hard work!