Quartz does not set the date properly
Quartz's documentation says the following:
Syntax, Authoring Content, Quartz Documentation:
date: A string representing the day the note was published. Normally usesYYYY-MM-DDformat.
This works if defaultDateType is set
                    to created. However, you might find
                    that all of the dates are not set correctly if you
                    change the defaultDateType to
                    modified or published.
This is because for these date types, the date is
                    actually read from different fields in the default
                    CreatedModifiedDate plugin. For
                    modified, the field is read from
                    lastmod, updated, or
                    last-modified. For
                    published, the date is read from
                    publishDate.