I'm wondering if there's any way of finding out the last rebuild date of a template so I can avoid rebuilding it--or rebuild it with its original contents intact.

I want to do a daily past entry (the Daily Exchronologue), and where I was originally considering using PHP and an advance list of posts to choose from, for now I'll just settle for manually rebuilding. I don't care now if the Daily Exchronologue isn't changed until there's a new post.

(Come to think of it, there's a second problem. I want the template for this to be built before the main index, which will include it.)

I know cron jobs could do this, but I've never used them and frankly I have no idea how. So I'd rather avoid that kind of solution if I could. Just some kind of conditional rebuild on the Exchronologue template would do.

Lummox JR