When doing an action e.g. a "save and publish" on the content for the first time, no item is added to the history under the info tab.
When doing a action e.g a "save and publish" on a item for the first time on a content, no publish date is generated neither added to the "history" under the "info" tab. If you look at the audit of a post with the e.g.
var auditItems = ApplicationContext.Services.AuditService.GetPagedItemsByEntity(item.Id, 0, int.MaxValue, out totalRecords, Direction.Ascending);
there is no item inside "auditItems" on the first action. After the first action, all the following actions get written correctly and also added to the history.
Umbraco version: 7.12.3 assembly: 1.0.6837.12334
Browser: Opera version 53
Tested inside chrome too. Same behavior like in Opera.
Picture of the empty audit when debugging: 
Gif of the issue:

On the first action on a content, a date is added to the audit and to the history of the content.
No date is added to the history neither to the audit. No error message occurred.
Ah, strange.. I can reproduce this.
I've marked this as "Up for grabs" so that you or someone else coming along could create a pull request for it.
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Ah, strange.. I can reproduce this.
I've marked this as "Up for grabs" so that you or someone else coming along could create a pull request for it.