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@@ -5,3 +5,17 @@ I have a bunch of pages that have been imported from another wiki.  Their Last E
 The *actual* mtime of the output file can be whatever works best for IkiWiki (as discussed on [[todo/mtime]]).  I'd just like IkiWiki to display the correct Last Edited date.
 
 Thanks for any hints! -- [[sabr]]
+
+> I can't reproduce this. ikiwiki _does_ look at the mtime, and that's what
+> it puts in the last edited date. Example:
+> 
+>	joey@kodama:~/src/ikiwiki>touch -t 198501011111 doc/bar.mdwn
+>	joey@kodama:~/src/ikiwiki>make
+>	[...]
+>	joey@kodama:~/src/ikiwiki>grep Last\ edit html/bar.html 
+>	Last edited Tue Jan  1 11:11:00 1985
+> 
+> Note that if you then touch the file to be even older, it won't notice
+> in a refresh. You'd have to force a rebuild in that case. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> You're right.  I thought I *had* rebuilt it but, when I started over from scratch, everything worked.  Sorry for the noise!  Marking this [[invalid|done]].  --[[sabr]]