Oh no! There IS no date!
This page could have been published at any time couldn't it?
It would therefore be very misleading to suggest that this blog can only have been in existence since the date of a first blog post - not least because there were no blog posts for 4 weeks after it went live with this page as its only content.
All this does rather make your teeth itch doesn't it?
Even more misleading of course would be to suggest that the date on a blog post is somehow fixed and can therefore be relied upon - clearly the first blog post at http://sharkresorts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/in-beginning.html appears to have been made at 05:14 Pacific Time or 13:14 GMT on February 1st 2014.
However, what our "expert" cannot know is that I have a forum post recorded on February 1st commenting on the existence of that blog and asking if anyone can suggest "Why is the date of the first post given as Thursday, 1 January 2015?"
The date stamp appears to have been amended manually at some point since then. Clearly it is not therefore trustworthy as an indicator as to when the post was actually made.
The answer to my question "Why is the date of the first post given as Thursday, 1 January 2015?", by the way, is probably that it is one way to make a Blogspot blog post "sticky" (i.e. keep it at the top of the page).
It's also interesting that this blog had still not been indexed by Google almost 2 weeks after it was in fact first set up.
It is therefore hard to accept a contention that another, similar blog, would have been indexed on the first day of its existence.
It seems reasonable to suggest therefore that a blog indexed by Google on February 1st this year must have been in existence for a considerable number of days, if not weeks, before that.
QED
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