It’s recommended to use the latest version of WordPress.
As far as I understand this should have been fixed, for drafts, many years ago, see e.g. ticket #8978
I quickly tested this on a vanilla install version 4.6.1 and a draft seems to be published at the current date-time.
There are hooks that can be used to fix this, but make sure you don’t have a plugin or theme that are causing this.
You can also edit the published date directly:
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