diff --git a/archive/entries/2018-06-06-1.xml b/archive/entries/2018-06-06-1.xml
index 1dfba02c1..39e06a884 100644
--- a/archive/entries/2018-06-06-1.xml
+++ b/archive/entries/2018-06-06-1.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <title>Southeast PHP Conference</title>
   <id>http://php.net/archive/2018.php#id2018-06-06-1</id>
   <published>2018-06-06T11:02:22+00:00</published>
-  <published>2018-06-06T11:02:22+00:00</published>
+  <updated>2018-06-06T11:02:22+00:00</updated>
   <default:finalTeaserDate xmlns="http://php.net/ns/news">2018-06-06</default:finalTeaserDate>
   <category term="conferences" label="Conference announcement"/>
   <link href="http://php.net/conferences/index.php#id2018-06-06-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
diff --git a/conferences/index.php b/conferences/index.php
index a61cd2acf..f279da7f0 100644
--- a/conferences/index.php
+++ b/conferences/index.php
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ $panels = '<p class="prepend"><a href="https://wiki.php.net/conferences">Want to
 foreach ((new NewsHandler())->getConferences() as $entry) {
     $link = preg_replace('~^(http://php.net/|https://www.php.net/)~', '', $entry["id"]);
     $id = parse_url($entry["id"], PHP_URL_FRAGMENT);
-    $date = date_format(date_create($entry["updated"]), 'Y-m-d');
+    $date = date_format(date_create($entry["updated"] ?? $entry["published"]), 'Y-m-d');
     $content .= '<div class="newsentry">';
     $content .= '<h3 class="newstitle title"><a href="' . $MYSITE . $link . '" id="' . $id . '">' . $entry["title"] . '</a></h3>';
     $content .= '<div class="newsimage">';