There is no direct method to find date of last update as website run with different technologies like php .net and content is dynamic.
There is no meta tag in html which can allow us to specify when a page was last modified. Regards, Gautam Chaudhary http://gautamchaudhary.com On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:03 AM, ankur kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ankur Kumar > Final Year > Master in Computer Applications > Birla Institute of Technology > MESRA > Ranchi - 835215 > > Mobile: +91-9968023094, +91-9162971729 > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi people, >> >> There's an issue which I guess some of you would also have faced- I >> perform a Google search for help with a particular programming feature in >> some programming language, and I find a page which is relevant. However, I >> get a feeling that the information might be a little outdated, and I want to >> know when the page was updated last. Is there any way to find this out even >> if the page maintainer does not record the page update date explicitly on >> the page? >> >> Help will be appreciated. (PS: this need not always be for programming >> tips- there are other kinds of information too which could be unhelpful or >> dangerous if outdated.) >> >> Thanks, >> Mihir. >> >> -- >> Mihir Mehta, >> B. Tech. student, >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering, >> Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. >> >> -- >> Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: >> http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >> > As far as I have seen pages, there DOES exist the date of last updation of > the page. Considering the technical aspect of this, a web site administrator > himself has to keep a track of the date of updation of the web page (as in > the last time when a user added a comment etc.). There are even sites where > a post/thread is removed after a specified number of days. > > So my honest opinion would be to look for the date of modification > yourself and then only to decide whether the information is helpful or not. > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
