From esr at thyrsus.com Wed Dec  3 14:56:13 2003
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From: Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>
To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: new leadership draft being posted...
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:02:50 -0500
Message-ID: <20031203200250.GC14401@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: 20031203195421.GA8228@devserv.devel.redhat.com

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Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm(a)redhat.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:29:38PM +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> > would you mind to place the date of the latest modification
> > on bottom of all the web pages ?
> > =

> > Now, it's nearly impossible to know when somebody modify a page.
> =

> I'll get it started.  There are a few pages in sufficient flux that I
> might miss adding the $Date$ strings in, but I think that once you see
> "This page last modified at:" on the web site, you can be reasonably
> sure that pages that don't show that text at the bottom haven't been
> recently modified.

There's a easier way.  I use this Javascript fragment in my headers:

<script language=3D"JavaScript" src=3D"/~esr/datestamp.js">

Here's the JavaScript to go with it:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// JavaScript to generate a compact date representation

//
// format date as dd-mmm-yy
// example: 12-Jan-99
//
function date_ddmmmyy(date)
{
  var d =3D date.getDate();
  var m =3D date.getMonth() + 1;
  var y =3D date.getYear();

  // handle different year values =

  // returned by IE and NS in =

  // the year 2000.
  if(y >=3D 2000)
  {
    y -=3D 2000;
  }
  if(y >=3D 100)
  {
    y -=3D 100;
  }

  // could use splitString() here =

  // but the following method is =

  // more compatible
  var mmm =3D =

    ( 1=3D=3Dm)?'Jan':( 2=3D=3Dm)?'Feb':(3=3D=3Dm)?'Mar':
    ( 4=3D=3Dm)?'Apr':( 5=3D=3Dm)?'May':(6=3D=3Dm)?'Jun':
    ( 7=3D=3Dm)?'Jul':( 8=3D=3Dm)?'Aug':(9=3D=3Dm)?'Sep':
    (10=3D=3Dm)?'Oct':(11=3D=3Dm)?'Nov':'Dec';

  return "" +
    (d<10?"0"+d:d) + " " +
    mmm + " " +
    (y<10?"0"+y:y);
}


//
// get last modified date of the =

// current document.
//
function date_lastmodified()
{
  var lmd =3D document.lastModified;
  var s   =3D "Unknown";
  var d1;

  // check if we have a valid date
  // before proceeding
  if(0 !=3D (d1=3DDate.parse(lmd)))
  {
    s =3D "" + date_ddmmmyy(new Date(d1));
  }

  return s;
}

//
// finally display the last modified date
// as DD-MMM-YY
//
document.writeln( =

  date_lastmodified() );

// End
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- =

		<a href=3D"http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



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