> I think the historical assumption was that even if the date can't be parsed for the
> second purpose, you still want the first purpose. However, you're right that this is
> really fragile, and the first purpose seems fairly niche anyway.
-> In ikiwiki git master (to be released as 3.20180321 or later) I've made `\[[!meta]]`
+> In ikiwiki git master (to be released as 3.20180321 or later) I've made `\[[!meta date=...]]`
+> and `\[[!meta updated=...]]`
> produce an error message if you don't have `Date::Parse` or if the date/time is
> malformed.
>