Unix time for static files (rather than Git time)

[pathawks]

It seems that, for pages and posts, the modified time is when they were committed to the Git repo.

Unless I am misunderstanding somethinh, it seems that for static files the modified time is what the file system has stored rather than when it was committed to the repo. Is there a reason for this?

Have I done something wrong? (Quite likely)

[gjtorikian]

The modified time should be used if and only if information cannot be ascertained from the Git repo on when it was committed. Are you using the plugin in a Git repo?

[pathawks]

Are you using the plugin in a Git repo?

Yup.

Here is what I am looking at: https://travis-ci.org/jekyll/jekyll-sitemap/jobs/47481786

http://example.org/jekyll-last-modified-at/static-file.html was created in the same commit as http://example.org/2015/01/18/jekyll-last-modified-at.html and http://example.org/jekyll-last-modified-at/page.html, but the latter two display the date they were committed while the former displays the file system modified date (which will always be different on Travis).

[gjtorikian]

It looks like jekyll-last-modified-at/static-file.html does not have frontmatter associated with it, whereas the other two do. I wonder if that would affect things here. /cc @parkr Any thoughts here?

[pathawks]

Right; it is a static file, rather than a page. Jekyll treats them differently.

[parkr]

Static files unfortunately do not have any of these same attributes. It would make sense to add a data Hash which is then used in to_liquid, but at the moment, that has not been implemented. :(

[pathawks]

My mistake, jekyll-last-modified-at ignores static files completely; it does not get the file system modified time.

It seems that this is the expected behavior, barring #34

Mea culpa.