James has a real point about Blosxom’s date management. It’s true that the date attached to a blog entry should be a “publication date” rather than the “authoring date” (O’Reilly’s weblog system gets this wrong). But once published the date shouldn’t change. I do sometimes edit entries after publication, to correct spelling or other minor mistakes. But I don’t want the publication date to change.

An additional problem is that blosxom’s permalinks are based on date. If the publication date can change, those links aren’t so perma, are they?