The power to antedate a judgment nunc pro tunc, whether under the rules of court or inherent jurisdiction, is limited to procedural matters and cannot be exercised to alter substantive rights — in particular, it cannot be used to circumvent the exclusion of exemplary damages under survival of actions legislation where a plaintiff dies between reservation and delivery of judgment. Interest on damages for lost investment opportunities should run only from the date to which the lost opportunities were calculated, not from the commencement of proceedings, to avoid temporal double-counting.
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