Set custom timestamp on transactions

Question

Would it be possible to set the timestamp of a transaction to a custom date that i set?

This is for legacy transactions on a system where the system is already running for longer than 6 months and some form of catch up of data to the BlockChain must be done.

I would like to set the timestamp to reflect the actual dates that are in my local database or will this have to be done with custom data fields instead?

Answer 1

You can't do this on the blockchain level unless you start messing about with the system clock on all the nodes. So I'm afraid it would require a custom field like you suggest.