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-rw-r--r--news/2009-07-31.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--news/2009-09-30.mdwn2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn
index 4c09e1ab..ac7653a9 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn
@@ -89,9 +89,12 @@ For practical work that means to use the following commands:
* at the end of the month: prepare for publishing the news
- Edit the news entry's *meta date* and *meta updated* time values. For
- stability, we set these two explicitly instead of relying on ikiwiki's
- method of using the files' creation and modification dates.
+ Edit the news entry's *meta date* value to the timestamp when the news
+ entry is [[published|news]]. We have to set that one manually, as
+ otherwise the timestamp of the news entry file's creation will be taken,
+ which is (much) earlier, and not what we want. We do not set the *meta
+ updated* value, as it's correct to update that one upon further
+ modifications of the news entries.
* ... and publish
diff --git a/news/2009-07-31.mdwn b/news/2009-07-31.mdwn
index 11f1e3d6..21f09ae2 100644
--- a/news/2009-07-31.mdwn
+++ b/news/2009-07-31.mdwn
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta date="2009-08-03 08:00 UTC"]]
-[[!meta updated="2009-08-03 08:00 UTC"]]
-
A month of the Hurd: *hurd Debian package*, *union mount translator*, *bug
fixes*, and a *job opening*.
[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
diff --git a/news/2009-09-30.mdwn b/news/2009-09-30.mdwn
index 5deeb7f5..38f09bfa 100644
--- a/news/2009-09-30.mdwn
+++ b/news/2009-09-30.mdwn
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta date="2009-10-01 11:52 UTC"]]
-[[!meta updated="2009-10-01 11:52 UTC"]]
-
A month of the Hurd: *Successful Google Summer of Code project: unionmount*.
[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""