Set Project Start Date Or Finish Date. Additionally when a user with full administrator rights attempts to make this same change to either the start or finish date those dates save as expected. By default the Start Date is set to be the current date.

However if you have unavoidable constraints such as an event date you can set a specific start or finish date for a task. Finish date for an entire project. Schedule your project start date or finish date Click Project Project Information.
MSP treats Start and Finish dates as the planned dates.
Under the General Settings tab select a Date Format. By default Project schedules from the start time. Enter a time and a date in the Start Finish You can enter the time and the date in any order or you can use calendar picker to select desired date and hour. The Started On date for a container like a sub-folder or a project will show the earliest started-on date from the tasks within.