Most computers are set up to use NTP automatically and it'd take a heck of a coincidence to get the time 7 minutes before the article was published. If they wa

Most computers are set up to use NTP automatically and it'd take a heck of a coincidence to get the time 7 minutes before the article was published. If they wanted to fake the time they'd pick something like midnight Jan 1 that gives no info. More likely is that they were waiting for someone to help them scrub the info from it and they hit the publish button on an already prepared article right after they got the file.