* date
- Specifies the creation date of the page. The date can be entered in
- nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[!cpan TimeDate]].
+ Specifies the creation date of the page. This creates a
+ `<meta name="date" content="...">` header in the HTML output, but also
+ modifies the internal `ctime` in the [[internal index|tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/]].
+ The date can be entered in nearly any format, since it's parsed by
+ [[!cpan TimeDate]] but invalid dates yield an error in 3.20180321
+ or later.
* stylesheet
modification time, like Planet: for instance, when editing an old blog post
to add tags, you could set `updated` to be one second later than the original
value. The date/time can be given in any format that
- [[!cpan TimeDate]] can understand, just like the `date` field.
+ [[!cpan TimeDate]] can understand, just like the `date` field and maps to the
+ `<meta name="updated" content="...">` HTML header and internal `mtime` field.
* foaf