It would be nice to backdate some posts, so they can be sorted easier "by 
hand" when the ctime of the actual file is not what you want.

The patch is [here](http://ikidev.betacantrips.com/patches/meta-date.patch).

You can see it in use [here](http://ikidev.betacantrips.com/metadate/).

    diff -urX ignorepats ikiclean/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm ikidev/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
    --- ikiclean/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm	2007-02-11 21:40:32.002000000 -0800
    +++ ikidev/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm	2007-02-12 07:44:11.182418000 -0800
    @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     use warnings;
     use strict;
     use IkiWiki;
    +use Date::Parse;
     
     my %meta;
     my %title;
    @@ -61,6 +62,10 @@
     		$permalink{$page}=$value;
     		$meta{$page}.="<link rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"".encode_entities($value)."\" />\n";
     	}
    +	elsif ($key eq 'date') {
    +		my $time = str2time($value);
    +		$IkiWiki::pagectime{$page}=$time;
    +	}
     	else {
     		$meta{$page}.="<meta name=\"".encode_entities($key).
     			"\" content=\"".encode_entities($value)."\" />\n";