On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, David Melton wrote: > Is there any way to change the way that ht://Dig determines the date > for a file that it's searching? In the case of the list archive, it > would be simple to write an external script to get the date from the > message's X-Date: header. I would expect that this might be widely > useful. In the case of my other application, I could also write a > simple program to extract a date from the html file.
Sure. This has come up several times. There's even an HTML META tag to handle dates. So if you can get a <META name="date" ...> tag into the documents, then you'll be fine. ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.5/SortMetaDate.0 Offhand, I don't know if the use_doc_date attribute has been added to the 3.1.6 snapshots, but if not, I'll make sure it's in there when I get back from vacation. > My other case could be more of a problem, since the historical files > contain data going back to 1757, which is a long time before 1970... I don't know what standards are available for this. I know some systems have time_t as a signed variable type, so it can count before Jan 1, 1970, but it's not cross-platform. (Similarly not all UNIX-like platforms have switched to 64-bit times and older platforms, will of course hit the 2038 barrier.) -- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
