Latest article WITHOUT repeat

Hmn, I read through them and now I’m thinking: “huh?”
I understand the multiple loop topic, but it basically focuses on the latest article from a category e.g. special_category. But what if I don’t want to specify a category? I don’t know what I’m going to categorise an article under until I’m finished writing it up.
Can it be done by specifying the_date or the_time as the latest article and not the category? Like this:

(Rough example, probably way off)

<?php query_posts(‘the_date=the_time(‘j F Y’)&showposts=1′); ?>

Well, something like that…I guess it’s just confusing me because it specific to one category and not the date or time…

Ok, I got it working–so this topic is RESOLVED because I used a foreach post code and removed the while code. So it seemed to have worked…for now.

I did this (in case anyone else has the same problem)


<div id="post-latest" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
foreach($posts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<!-- do stuff here -->
<?php endforeach; ?>
<!-- more link etc. here -->
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1');
foreach($posts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<!-- do stuff here -->
<?php endforeach; ?>