How to prevent admin role from changing "Updated date" of content The updated date of the content is displayed on each node with this code in template file.

&lt;?php print strftime( "%Y-%m-%d", $node-&gt;changed) ?&gt;


Now when I save the content with admin role the date displayed is the date I updated (of course). But I only want to display the date updated by the author of the content. So how can I prevent admin role from changing "updated date" and only keep the date updated by the content author?  Or is there a way to display only the updated date by the author of content?
You can't really, it's hard coded into the node_save() function with this bit of code:

$time = time();
if (empty($node-&gt;created)) {
  $node-&gt;created = $time;
}

// The changed timestamp is always updated for bookkeeping purposes (revisions, searching, ...)
$node-&gt;changed = $time;


Short of implementing your own node form which bypasses node_save() there's not really much you can do (except hacking the core node.module file which is never advised).