1 It would be nice to backdate some posts, so they can be sorted easier "by
2 hand" when the ctime of the actual file is not what you want.
4 The patch is [here](http://ikidev.betacantrips.com/patches/meta-date.patch).
6 You can see it in use [here](http://ikidev.betacantrips.com/metadate/).
8 diff -urX ignorepats ikiclean/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm ikidev/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
9 --- ikiclean/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm 2007-02-11 21:40:32.002000000 -0800
10 +++ ikidev/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm 2007-02-12 07:44:11.182418000 -0800
20 $permalink{$page}=$value;
21 $meta{$page}.="<link rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"".encode_entities($value)."\" />\n";
23 + elsif ($key eq 'date') {
24 + my $time = str2time($value);
25 + $IkiWiki::pagectime{$page}=$time;
28 $meta{$page}.="<meta name=\"".encode_entities($key).
29 "\" content=\"".encode_entities($value)."\" />\n";