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authorhttp://seanh.myopenid.com/ <http://seanh.myopenid.com/@web>2009-04-02 09:53:06 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2009-04-02 09:53:06 -0400
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@@ -53,3 +53,8 @@ Do I have it right?
> > > If you want to preserve the date of a page, the best way to do it is to
> > > use [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] date="foo". This will survive checkouts,
> > > VCS migrations, etc. -- [[Jon]]
+> > >
+> > > > That's a good tip Jon. That would also survive renaming a page by renaming its mdwn file, which would
+> > > > normally lose the times also. (And in that case I think both times are irretrievable, even by
+> > > > `--getctime`). I might start using a simple script to make blog posts that creates a file for
+> > > > me, puts today's date in the file as a meta, and opens the file in my editor. -- [[seanh]]