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+What I wanted
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+I thought to myself it would be nice to see from the console the dates that my ikiwiki blog posts were published.  Especially as I would like to know the order of my todo list without having to view the webpage.
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+What I discovered
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+Looked at the code and saw the functions for grabbing the ctime from git but couldn't reconcile them to the "Posted" date in the RSS feed.  Some more reading and I figured out that the Posted time is taken from the UNIX ctime when first uploaded into the repository and this information is stored in the page state via a Perl storable database - indexdb. (I'm sure most know this but to be clear in UNIX ctime is *not* the actual creation time of a file. UNIX has no facility for recording the actual creation time - however on first upload to the wiki it's good enough).
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+Wrote a Perl script to query and sort indexdb.  Now I can list my todos or blog posts in the order they appear on the web.  Handy.
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+However the ikiwiki state is specifically excluded via '.gitignore'.  I work a lot on trains and not having this file in my cloned wiki means I can't list published posts or my todos in the proper order.  I can get an approximation from git logs but, dam it, I want it the same!
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+What can I do?
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+Is it a spectacularly bad idea to include the ikiwiki state file in my cloned repo (I suspect it is).  What else could be done?  Can I disable pagestate somehow or force ikiwiki to always use git commit times for Posted times?
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