Basically I wanted to make things more complicated for myself. No reason, just didn’t think about it - HA! So, yeah. It’s working now. But of course I had to convert from the UNIX time stamp which is a pain (since I’m no PHP or MySQL guru).
Is there a specific reason you are using Ditto to display the article on the page rather than MODx templating?
Nothing. I’ve never used the debug thing before, but it didn’t really tell me anything, but not sure what I should be expecting.
What happens if you add &debug=`true` to your Ditto call?