behaviour of inline with meta-provided times

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+I have a directory containing two files. f1 has 
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+    meta date="2008-07-02 14:13:17"
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+f2 has
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+    meta date="2008-07-02 21:04:21"
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+They have both been modified recently:
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+    >>> stat(f1)
+    (33188, 459250L, 65027L, 1, 1000, 1000, 1686L, 1227967177, 1227966706, 1227966706)
+    >>> stat(f2)
+    (33188, 458868L, 65027L, 1, 1000, 1000, 938L, 1227967187, 1227966705, 1227966705)
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+Note that f1 is fractionally newer than f2 in terms of ctime and mtime, but f2 is much newer in terms of the meta information.
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+Another page includes them both via inline. The inclusion pagespec is not based on date, but on path (and the files are sorted into directories based on their dates)
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+    inline pages="2008/07/*/*" show=5
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+The resulting page is rendered with f1 above f2, seemingly not using the meta directive information. The italic-footer in the inline pages does use the correct time e.g. <em>Posted Wed 02 Jul 2008 14:13:17 BST</em>.
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+If I instead include them using creation_year in the pagespec, they are ordered correctly.
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+I'm working on importing a blosxom site into ikiwiki. I'll try and reproduce this online.
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+-- [[JonDowland]]