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 ```yaml
 # Footer content appears at the bottom of every page's main content
 footer_content: "Copyright &copy; 2017-2019 Patrick Marsceill. Distributed by an <a href=\"https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs/tree/master/LICENSE.txt\">MIT license.</a>"
+# Footer metadata
+show_last_edit_time: true
+last_edit_time_format: "%b %e %Y at %I:%M %p"
+show_gh_edit_link: true
+gh_edit_repository: "https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs"
+edit_link_text: "Edit this page on GitHub"
 ```
 
+* the "page last modified" data will only display if a page has a key called `last_modified_date`, formatted in some readable date format
+* `last_edit_time_format` uses Ruby's DateTime formatter; see examples and more information [at this link.](https://apidock.com/ruby/DateTime/strftime)
+* `gh_edit_repository` should be changed to the project's GitHub repository
+
 ## Color scheme
 
 ```yaml