This is similar to the last post in this forum. I want to know exactly how ikiwiki remembers the times associated with pages, especially when using it for blogging, so I know whether I can trust it or not. From that last thread, I think what ikiwiki does is this:
* The created time of a file is when that file was first committed into the versioning repository (in my case git)
> Almost right, the modified time is actually taken from the
> modification time of the file in disk. --[[Joey]]
2009-04-01 13:26:06 +02:00
And with a blog, by default, the posts are ordered by creation time, although an option can order them by modified time.
Okay. So this should mean that the times are safe if, for example, I delete my working copy and then clone another one from the bare git repository, or otherwise mess up the creation times and mtimes stored as file metadata on the filesystem.