hardcodedates

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_Updated 2007-02-23._

[hardcodedates](/space/hardcodedates.py) is a
[PyBlosxom](http://pyblosxom.sf.net/) plugin that overrides Pyblosxom's
[default mtime handling](http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/1.3.1/manual/x704.html)
to read mtimes from a file, instead of from the filesystem.

This has a number of benefits. Similar to
[other](http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/date/metadate)
[plugins](http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/date/rememberdates),
it allows you to manually specify each entry's mtime. The mtimes are stored in
a single file, so PyBlosxom doesn't need to stat every entry. Finally, it adds
mtimes for new entries, to preserve their original mtime and to avoid stat
calls.

hardcodedates was
[originally written](http://www.nathanbullock.org/nathan/pyblosxom/)
by [Nathan Bullock](http://www.nathanbullock.org/). I've taken over
maintennance, with his permission.

hardcodedates is Copyright 2004 [Nathan Bullock](http://www.nathanbullock.org/),
2006 [Ryan Barrett](/space/about), and is distributed
under the [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html).

See also:
  * [migrating to pyblosxom](/space/2006-08-23)
  * [filekicker](/space/filekicker)
  * [photogallery](/space/photogallery)
  * [pyblosxom ajax comments](/space/pyblosxom ajax comments)
  * [pyblosxom rdf flavour](/space/pyblosxom rdf flavour)