CMS Best way to make an "archive"?

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I have my CMS set up, and updating daily or weekly. What's the best way to make a sidebar with a calendar containing for instance all the articles for every month? (Like any wordpress implementation).

Where you can click for instance "January 2010" and it will take you to the section with only january 2010 stuff.

Is this even possible, or should I use categories for every month and select the month when I publish an article? (a little awkward) Or is there some calendar function I missed?


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