* Patch from Ethan to allow using meta tags to set creation dates of pages.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / meta.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
index 1cf8010289720ae4a3629755b0472a3e8f67f890..5c3098e5632ec432f88dcc5fc2981da2b39be3dd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ You can use any field names you like, but here are some predefined ones:
   Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page
   generated by ikiwiki.
 
+* date
+
+  Specifies the creation date of the page. The date can be entered in
+  nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[cpan TimeDate]].
+
 If the field is not treated specially (as the link and title fields are),
 the metadata will be written to the generated html page as a <meta>
 header.