[Moin-user] Can one set the creation and modify dates of an article?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:17:37PM +0100, Thomas Waldmann wrote:
> I think you are try to go the wrong way.
> 
> Moin's edit-log timestamps reflect when a revision of some content was
> saved into the wiki. As that is an important timestamp for some
> applications, we are not going to implement any way to fake it.
> 
Revision date doesn't actually worry me, it's the creation date.


> That timestamp does not (and does not have to) reflect when an event the
> written content refers to has happened.
> 
Well, no, but nearly all of the 'sort by date' functionality in
moinmoin and plugins uses the creation date (or maybe last revision
date) to sort the output.

> What you maybe want to try is to use e.g. MonthCalendar and create pages
> with it. They'll have the date in the pagename as
> CalendarPage/YYYY-MM-DD format and thus can be sorted easily. You can
> also create such pages manually, of course.
> 
Hmm, maybe, except that I really want descriptive names for the pages.

> Also, you can of course add <<DateTime(...)>> macros to the content. You
> have to provide some timestamp to the macro as parameter (see what
> @DATETIME@ creates when saving). Those macros can be used if you need to
> refer to specific points in time and render them as reader's localtime
> for international readers (but still refering to the same point in
> time).
> 
But I can't sort output with these timestamps can I?

-- 
Chris Green