Re: How to get the html creation date into the "Modified" meta tag?

* Stephan Petersen <[email protected]>:
> when I look at the "Modified" meta tag in my html files, like this one
> <meta name="Modified"  content="2004-01-16 20:05:27">
> I notice that the date used is the time stamp of the wml file.
>
> How do I tell wml to use the *creation* date of the html file, i.e.
> the time stamp of the html file?

Well, as far as I can see, you have to do it yourself:

<define-tag mtime whitespace="delete">
<preserve file/>
<set-var %attributes />
<:
    use POSIX qw(strftime);
    my $file = qq+<get-var file>+;
    if ($file) {
        ($mtime) = (stat("$file"))[9];
    } else {
        $mtime = $WML_SRC_TIME;
    }
    print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime($mtime));
:>
<restore file/>
</define-tag>

This can be called without arguments to display the time for the
current file, or called with an argument <mtime file="some-included-file.html"/>

Oh by the way: this displays the *modification* time, I'm too lazy to
look up the exact Perl stat() syntax (and other WML-variables) to
adapt for creation time - I'm not sure why you'd want that anyway... ;-)

Hope that helps,
Wolfgang

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