misdate
verb [ T ] (also mis-date) uk/mɪsˈdeɪt/ us/ˌmɪsˈdeɪt/
说错…的年代;推算错…形成的时间
to wrongly say that something has a particular date or age, or that something happened or was made at a particular time
Most of the manuscripts were misdated by ten to twenty years.
In 1911 he designed a building which everyone today would mis-date as 1930 or 1935. 1911年，他设计了一栋建筑，今天所有人都误认为这栋楼是1930或1935年设计的。
写错日期
to write the wrong date on something
Claims were electronically misdated so that it would seem they had been processed on time. 索赔日期在电脑上被（故意）写错了，以便让它们看起来已经被及时处理过了。
The customer complained about the misdated baby blanket.
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- The author misdates a famous battle from an earlier war.
- They misdated his translations, which were actually published in the 1960s.
- The raid led to arrests, but the suspects were released on a technicality - a misdated warrant.