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   1 <h1>Course Start Date</h1>
   2
   3 <p>This is where you specify the starting time of the
   4    course (in your own timezone).</p>
   5
   6 <p>If you are using a 'weekly' course format, this will
   7    affect the display of the weeks.  The first week will
   8    start on the date you set here.</p>
   9
  10 <p>This setting will not affect courses using the
  11    'social' or 'topics' formats.</p>
  12
  13 <p>However, one place this setting will affect is
  14    the display of logs, which use this date as the earliest
  15    possible date you can display.</p>
  16
  17 <p>In general, if your course does have a real starting date
  18    then it makes sense to set this date to that, no matter
  19    what course formats you are using.</p>