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@@ -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