suggestion: don't modify the date when edit/revise about lb HOT 1 CLOSED

This is an important feature for me as well, so I've figured it out. Have a look a the "publish()" function.

It looks like lb never modifies the date as it's originally generated in the "database" (.htaccess) file at the time of the initial creation of the entry. It actually just updates a string called "$webdate" on each revision while leaving "$rssdate" intact.

Any time a new or existing entry is published, the publish function checks to make sure "$rssdate" exists and thus leaves it alone, creating a new one only if it doesn't exist (meaning, in such cases, the publish function is posting a new entry and not modifying an old one).

Since "$webdate" is defined after "$rssdate" anyway (both just a few lines into the function), we can actually redefine it to reflect "$rssdate" pretty easily. Look for this line as it appears by default and which we'll have to replace:

webdate="$(date '+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z')" # But this visible date you can set to any format.

The date command at least on my system has a "-d" flag you can use which applies the subsequent formatting to whatever date you input into it (as opposed to "right now"). So we can use this with reference to the "$rssdate" string and still apply whatever format we want. In my case, I'll go with this:

webdate="$(date -d "$rssdate" '+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M')"

That appears to do the trick!

from lb.