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-date: 2017-10-19
+date: 2017-10-19T00:00:00+02:00
 title: "0.30.1: Two Important Bugfixes!"
 description: "Fixes `hugo -w` and validator-broken Sitemap."
 categories: ["Releases"]
diff --git a/content/news/0.30.2-relnotes-ready.md b/content/news/0.30.2-relnotes-ready.md
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-date: 2017-10-19
+date: 2017-10-19T12:00:00+02:00
 title: "0.30.2: One More Bugfix"
 description: "Fixes Fast Render mode when having sub-path in `baseURL`."
 slug: "0.30.2"