Lane Miles wrote:
Hi All,
Hi Lane,
On the support.openoffice.org page, below the content header, the date
is messed up. It is shown as, $Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $. I don't know
if the date is even supposed to be there. If it is, I quote the HTML
from the page.
<span class="modified">$Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $</span>
the $Date: .... $ thing is pure CVS magic.
If you have a $Date:$ String somewhere in your document this will
automatically be replaced by $Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $ when the page
is first checked into the CVS source code control repository and
automatically replaced by a newer date everytime a new version is
checked into the source code control repository.
However, it should read:
<span class="modified">Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36</span>
If we now just change that to <span class="modified">Date: 2007/12/07
03:58:36</span> this would mean that now every user changing the page
would have to manually(!!!!) change that date value also which might
often be forgotten instead of this happening automatically.
I do also think that this doesn´t look good on that HTML page tough.
Such $Date:$ might be acceptable in a comment in source code but is not
so good for an HTML page displayed to end users. Thus i would like to
propose a third variant which keeps the CVS magical handling intact but
beautifies the page at least for those users which do have javascript
enabled.
<span id="modified" class="modified">$Date: 2007/12/07 03:58:36 $</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
if( document.getElementById )
elem = document.getElementById("modified");
else if( document.all )
elem = document.all["modified"];
else if( document.layers )
elem = document.layers["modified"];
if ( elem ) {
lastmod=elem.firstChild.data;
elem.firstChild.data=lastmod.substring(1,lastmod.length-2);
}
</script>
Sincerely,
Lane
Kind regards
Bernd Eilers
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