diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 69626ac..57bbe07 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+blogdates.txt
 localhashes.txt
 remotehashes.txt
 Makefile.cfg
diff --git a/blogindex.sh b/blogindex.sh
index 667cf08..6ced1a5 100755
--- a/blogindex.sh
+++ b/blogindex.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,17 @@
 
 DIRECTORY="pages/blog"
 
-FILES=`ls $DIRECTORY/*.md -1t` 
+FILES=`ls $DIRECTORY/*.md -1` 
+
+echo -n > blogdates.txt
+for f in $FILES; do
+	MTIME=`git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%at $f`
+	MTIME=${MTIME-9999999999}
+	printf "%d\t%s\n" $MTIME $f >> blogdates.txt
+done
+
+# resort by last git commit time
+FILES=`cat blogdates.txt | sort -nr | cut -f 2-`
 
 cat tpl/blog_header.md
 
diff --git a/blogrss.sh b/blogrss.sh
index ea740c8..6968088 100755
--- a/blogrss.sh
+++ b/blogrss.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,17 @@
 
 DIRECTORY="pages/blog"
 
-FILES=`ls $DIRECTORY/*.md -1t` 
+FILES=`ls $DIRECTORY/*.md -1` 
+
+echo -n > blogdates.txt
+for f in $FILES; do
+	MTIME=`git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%at $f`
+	MTIME=${MTIME-9999999999}
+	printf "%d\t%s\n" $MTIME $f >> blogdates.txt
+done
+
+# resort by last git commit time
+FILES=`cat blogdates.txt | sort -nr | cut -f 2-`
 
 cat << RSSHEADER
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>