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@@ -89,11 +89,18 @@ a one or two sentence description of the page.
 remove a path component from the end of tree when displaying with the
 **path** pattern
 
+**published**  
+use this with the `published` pattern to insert the publish date.
+
 ### patterns
 **path**  
 use this pattern with `path_link` and `path_name` to insert links to the
 directories below a page.
 
+**published**  
+use this pattern with `published_human` and `published_machine` to fill in
+the publish time of a post. use this with the `published` frontmatter.
+
 ## Page content uses a weird kind of markup language
 It's mostly just HTML, but I'm tired of writing `<p>` so damn much.