From: http://seanh.myopenid.com/ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:53:06 +0000 (-0400) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Url: https://scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/www/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/a24a669cabb9475e2e4bddb588ef15b51d73d376 --- diff --git a/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn index 067aa0c09..0e771cd0d 100644 --- a/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/How_does_ikiwiki_remember_times__63__.mdwn @@ -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]]