Date met issue gen 4 -> 5

[Dinky]

So I just managed to recover some of my oldest pokemon from Pokemon Ranch on the wii using PKhex (original game was deleted and then lost the cartridge etc) and have then successfully transferred them from X -> bank -> home -> SV with no issue. However after the transfer I noticed that the met date was still set to a time prior to when gen 5 had come out, and as I now understand it when transferring past gen 5 the met date should be updated.

For example my swampert has gen 4 met date of 04/09/2007 (as gen 3 has no met date data), however the swampert I've transferred into SV still has that same met date. My retainmetdatetransfer45 setting is set to false so it shouldn't be retaining this either. 

Am I good to just try this progress again and change the date manually to a time when BW were released? Or is it not that big of a deal since they went through bank and home fine. Thanks :)

[Kaphotics]

If it already passed through HOME, then it cannot be changed legally. An entirely different pokemon would have to be transferred instead, unless you try transferring an untransferred clone (which isn't really legal, but HOME doesn't really check).

[Dinky]

2 minutes ago, Kaphotics said:

If it already passed through HOME, then it cannot be changed legally. An entirely different pokemon would have to be transferred instead, unless you try transferring an untransferred clone (which isn't really legal, but HOME doesn't really check).

Oh yeah, that's kinda what I meant. 

So I'd release the ones that are already in home, then send an untransferred clone with a proper met date, unless that would cause an issue