Why does clipping an article ERASE its date?

[LatinScribe 6]

Maybe I'm just plain weird in wanting to know when an article was published. Does anyone else feel this way? As I see it, one single year CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE in internet time. I thought tech execs would understand this. But I was wrong. For example, whenever I clip an article in Evernote, the app ERASES the publish date. Why do they do that? If Evernote wants a shot at helping students do research (for example), don't they know that all citations REQUIRE THE PUBLISH DATE OF AN ARTICLE. Erasing the publish date seems just plain dumb.

[gazumped 10,335]

Evernote isn't purpose-designed to help write citations,  so probably wasn't ever designed to include publication dates.  Where do you get the publication date anyway?  Is it the case that it's actively erased by Evernote,  or simply that it's not captured?  It might help us understand if you could screenshot a typical article and indicate where the actual date should appear,  or maybe give us the URL of an example..?

[jefito 5,586]

I'm guessing that the user wants Evernote to pick up some "publishing" date in the clipped content, and populate the creation date of the new note with that date. I don't know what standards there are for that, so it's hard to tell how feasible it is.