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authorJon Dowland <jon@ncl.ac.uk>2009-04-02 13:15:30 +0100
committerJon Dowland <jon@ncl.ac.uk>2009-04-02 13:15:30 +0100
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use meta date='foo'
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@@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ Do I have it right?
> > Surely it is not the _last changed time_ but the _first seen time_ of each page that is pulled out of the VCS?
> > If the aim is to get the real creation times of items in weblogs, then the last times that the items were
> > changed in the VCS is not going to help. -- [[seanh]]
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+> > > 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]]