Greetings,

I'm feeling a bit thick right now having tried a large(ish) number of things and having probably missed the very simple solution.

I'm trying to create a Template:Timestamper so that including {{Timestamper}} in a page generates a static timestamp, detailing when the template was first added to the page.

I'm orbiting around the following content for Template:Timestamper:

<includeonly>{{ {{{|safesubst:}}}CURRENTTIMESTAMP }}</includeonly>

but the resulting timestamp remains dynamic: every time I reload the page it changes to reflect current time. Instead, I'd like a frozen timestamp.

Normally I'd simply include {{subst:CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} directly in the page but I'm trying to create a bigger template to simplify my users life: I'd like it to automatically display when the template was first included in the page and by whom, hence this simpler "timestamper" question.

I'm sure I'm missing an incredibly simple solution...

Regards,

Manu