Automatic date up-date

[Bob Long]

Thomas makes a good point. Date information for the current page is
available from most browsers anyway (View|Document Info. in Navigator;
File|Properties in IE), so posting 'artificial' dates at the bottom of a
page could prove to be more of a negative than a positive.

Bob

At 08:47 AM 1/6/97 -0800, you wrote:
>If the files reside on a Unix server, it's probably pretty simple to
>automate the process with a shell script and sed.  (General reminder to
>everyone: you'll get more specific answers from the list if you provide
>platform, version, and other relevant information.)
>
>But why assume that a file "looks bad" just because it's a few months old? 
>If a page is really stable and not liable to go out of date, just remove
>the date.  Changing the date just to artificially make the page seem more
>recent strikes me as a little less than truthful, albeit in a pretty
>trivial way.
>
>Thomas Dowling
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>Ohio Library and Information Network
>
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