Re: [pyblosxom-users] hardcoding mtimes for stories in their metadata section

[Tim G. <tg...@pr...>]

On Nov 01, 2010 at 03:11 PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Thanks, this is actually another plugin then the one I was looking for.

Yeah I wrote this from scratch the other month.

> Notice that both the description for cb_prepare as well as the big
> comment block on top of your file imply that they reset/ignore mtime
> first, and then update using the info from the metadata.  This is not
> correct, from looking at the code it seems that the pubdate can
> override the mtime, but the mtime is not discarded if there is no
> pubdate.

That is correct.  If there is not pubdate/pubtime, then the file's mtime is 
used.  If I recall correctly, the if those variables aren't set in the post 
file, $(pubtime), $(pubdate), $(displaytime), and $(displaydate) are all 
populated by the file's mtime, so you can use the same set of templates and 
mix files with hardcoded dates and files with mtime encoded dates.

I think cb_prepare's comment reflects that fact that during the cb_sortlist 
loop (which occurs before), a file's pubtime is set according to the mtime 
if #pubtime/#pubdate doesn't exist.  So once you get to cb_prepare, we DO 
ignore file's actual mtime - it's already been taking into account.