name: rdate
author: David Zejda
home page: http://www.zejda.net/pyblosxom-rdate/
download: http://www.zejda.net/pyblosxom-rdate/rdate.py
license:
category: scripts
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last edited: Feb 20, 2013 (Wednesday)

Script for saving and loading the original posting date for an entry in the entry metadata.

Filename may be given in commandline argument, if not so, program asks for it. If dealing with file first time, program reads the modified-time and stores it as a tag: #published %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S e.g. #published 2007-05-15 15:30:28 right after entry title line. The current modified-time of file is preserved.

If run on the same file again and if the modified-time has been changed since the time of tag storage, script restores the saved time (sets it as the current modified-time). That's all.

Program is rather pyblosxom utility than plugin, so there is no reason to move it to plugins dir.

There are many ways how to use the script. I personally use CVS as a primary storage for blog entries. But there is problem - CVS does not honor mtime. So, I run the rdate.py once on files before adding them to CVS. Then i update blog from the repository, but, we know, cvs does it without correct mtimes. So, after blog update I run the rdate.py on files once more to restore saved time from #published tags. Simple bash scripts does this automatically for me, so I care for blog entry times no more.