From: anarcat Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:26:12 +0000 (-0400) Subject: clarify what date fields do, following [[bugs/invalid_meta_date_or_updated_not_diagno... X-Git-Tag: 3.20190207~190 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/19d79818247058dbe07cf85bf158f5c01254e100 clarify what date fields do, following [[bugs/invalid_meta_date_or_updated_not_diagnosed]] --- diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn index 3df176c48..89a32946a 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn @@ -75,8 +75,12 @@ a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on. * 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 + `` 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 @@ -193,7 +197,8 @@ a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on. 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 + `` HTML header and internal `mtime` field. * foaf