[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="lykos@d125a37d89b1cfac20829f12911656c40cb70018"
 nickname="lykos"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/085df7b04d3408ba23c19f9c49be9ea2"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2018-03-23T19:01:02Z"
 content="""
The year, month and day fields are used when creating views that sort files by modification date, eg. `git annex view year=* month=* day=*`. This cannot be done using timestamps. I agree that an additional timestamp field is a good idea, so I modified the pre-commit-annex hook by adding

    field=\"mtime\"
    value=$(stat -Lc %Y \"$f\")
    addmeta \"$f\" \"$field\" \"$value\"

at the end of the process function.
"""]]
