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Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Current date?


At 09:48 04/04/2003 +0100, Norman Walsh wrote:

Except for some special circumstances, I think dating documents with
the date they were formatted is not very useful. It tends to make two
documents appear to be different even if they were simply formatted on
two different days.

My own approach to the "today's date" versioning problem is to use a
CVS $Date$ somewhere. That way it's automatically updated whenever I
checkin a new version of a document.

Which does somewhat restrict its utility Norm? I could say the say for an emacs timestamp, but that's equally colloquial?

When you do move to 2.0 I'd be happy to support a more generally
applicable date stamp as being the formatting time.

regards DaveP



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