Supplement full-featured date capabilities

[jaywhj]

@Guts

I have another suggestion you could try.

I noticed that mkdocs-rss-plugin uses the creation and update dates of documents. You can obtain accurate dates directly via the API provided by MaterialX.

All of these date-related issues should be resolved, for example: #377 #317

In the past, neither MkDocs, mkdocs-material, nor other similar static site generators had a perfect solution for this.

MaterialX has now solved this (via its built-in plugin). It can accurately retrieve the original document timestamps in any environment (with or without Git) delivering a much better user experience. This data capability is already used to generate the lastmod field in sitemap.xml.

for detail, see developer-api

• It's 20-500 times faster than git-revision-date-localized and git-authors, and works in any environment (no-Git, Git environments, Docker, all CI/CD build systems, etc.)
• Completely resolved date and time infrastructure issues, enabling the project to support automated date processing. Manual date configuration is no longer required for any feature, including: page date display, blog post dates, blog date archives, blog list sorting, sitemap.xml (lastmod - SEO improvements), RSS feeds, recently updated section, search ranking, and more

[Guts]

Really interesting, thanks.

I'll push a new integration option.

[jaywhj]

@Guts

Considering you need compatibility with other themes, I've updated the API usage example to be safer and more reliable.

Developer API

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions during use.