You are within reason to ask the company what led to the date change and to say something like you want to make sure things are still on track for you to start the job.
When rescinded offers were not common years ago, my recruiter called me literally an hour before I was going to give notice and told me they needed to move my start date back a week, but they definitely still wanted me to start the job, and she thought I'd just prefer to not give my then employer 3 weeks or be without pay for a week if the company I was leaving didn't let me work an extra week. She also told me that the reason was because my new boss did not want a new employee starting when he was not around,. and they had a short notice change in plans internally because another manager who was supposed to represent the company at a professional conference had a family emergency requiring him to stay close to home, and my boss (a director who was also that manager's boss) had to go to the event in his place. It all worked out fine. I'm just sharing this because there are so many bad stories where this leads to someone having an offer pulled, and it's worth noting that sometimes, their explanation and statement they still want you to start is true, and there is a totally understandable human situation in the background.
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