Blog posts sort order wrong for multiple posts on same day

[miketheman]

Context

Thanks for the really awesome tool!

I recently noticed that when publishing multiple posts on a single date, there's no real way to "manually" sort them in to a desired order.

Bug description

When supplying a date metadata, the full value is not used to control the sort order.

---
date: 2023-06-06T00:00:01
---
vs
---
date: 2023-06-06T00:00:02
---

Related links

• Reporting a bug
• https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/plugins/blog/#meta.date
• I suspect something near here

  mkdocs-material/src/plugins/blog/plugin.py

  Lines 133 to 137 in 6c18591

  	self.blog.posts = sorted(
  	self._resolve_posts(files, config),
  	key = lambda post: post.config.date.created,
  	reverse = True
  	)

• Potentially here

  mkdocs-material/src/plugins/blog/structure/options.py

  Lines 63 to 66 in 6c18591

  	# Convert all date values to datetime
  	for key, value in config[key_name].items():
  	if isinstance(value, date):
  	config[key_name][key] = datetime.combine(value, time())

Reproduction

9.5.0-blog-post-sort-order-wrong.zip

Steps to reproduce

1. Load the attached repo
2. Run mkdocs serve
3. Observe the incorrect sort order of Mid 1, Mid 2, Mid 3 - where it should be reversed.
   This is seen in both the main text and the TOC right sidebar.

Browser

No response

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• I have attached a .zip file with a minimal reproduction.

[squidfunk]

Thanks for reporting and the excellent reproduction. Fixed in 5b70a0c. We accidentally dropped the time component of datetime, because we only did the instance check for date, and datetime is also a date.

[miketheman]

Excellent, thanks so much for the speedy fix!

P.S. I think you meant "lose" not "loose" in the changes.

[squidfunk]

Thanks, corrected.

[squidfunk]

Released as part of 9.5.1.