[O] Re: org-publish not publishing changed files

[Aidan Gauland]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos <at> hp.com> writes:
> org uses timestamps to figure out which files need publishing
> (see section 13.4 of the Org manual) and they may have gotten
> curdled somehow. You can force publication by giving a second
> argument to org-publish (if you called it interactively, you
> could do that by giving it a prefix arg):
> 
> (org-publish "aidalgolland" t)
> 
> Or you can try getting rid of the timestamps (they are stored
> in the directory named in the variable org-publish-timestamp-directory
> (by default "~/.org-timestamps/") and publish again.
> 
> If you can figure out *why* they got out of sync, that would be
> a bonus and worth a post here, particularly if you can identify
> a bug in the code.

How can I get the timestamps in a more human-readable format?  I keep
having this problem (and no symlinks involved) and keep having to wipe
the timestamps directory (a royal nuisance).

--Aidan