Last week we discussed one way of viewing older entries, and that was by category. Another popular method to browse archives is by date. While you can use parameters to limit the weblog entries tag by date, ExpressionEngine will also look at the URL and recognize a date string. You can read more about this magic in The Importance of Semantics: Dates
It is common to want to browse archives by month, and to make this kind of list easier to create, ExpressionEngine includes the Archive Month Links Tag. This is a pretty straightforward tag - shall we?