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@@ -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.