+
+> There is an old todo about it: [[tagging_with_a_publication_date]].
+> I feel my idea there about making a pagespec that is limited to
+> items in the present/past, combined with setting the meta data, is a good
+> way.. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks for your response Joey. Should I merge these two TODOs, then?
+>> So if I understand you correctly, you would prefer some new pagespecs
+>> to match future/past dates, and a plugin which kept track of pages with
+>> a future date and kept them 'dirty' (similar to the above), which means
+>> avoiding the need for a `dirty` pagespec in the page itself. Is that
+>> about right?
+>>
+>> I came up with the following, but I haven't adapted `dirty.pm` inline
+>> with my understanding above, yet.
+
+ sub match_infuture ($$;@) {
+ my $page = shift;
+ return IkiWiki::SuccessReason->new("page time is in the future")
+ if $IkiWiki::pagectime{$page} > time;
+ return IkiWiki::FailReason->new("page time is not in the future");
+ }
+
+>> I've managed to get my original suggestion working. The problem was
+>> I was using quotes when invoking the pagespec, which stopped `str2time`
+>> working.
+>>
+>> Let me know if I've understood your POV correctly and I'll see about
+>> tidying this up and putting it in a branch.
+>>
+>> Finally, a way of scheduling future runs of ikiwiki *within ikiwiki
+>> itself* might be useful for other things too, and would avoid the
+>> need for a cron job in this case. (I'm thinking of a plugin that
+>> implemented itself in terms of cron, or at, or both, or possibly
+>> other things depending on what people want to support). But that would
+>> be substantially more work, more than I can afford atm at least. — [[Jon]]
+
+> Some times ago, I wrote a Pagespec function that matches pages that have
+> creation date in the future: [[plugins/contrib/created_in_future/]]. It can
+> be enhanced to create the `current_date_before(<DATE>)` pagespec. The
+> interesting part of my plugin is that it makes IkiWiki rebuild pages on the
+> right date.
+>
+> -- [[Louis|spalax]]