Hi everyone
Not sure if this is a Mac problem, a netscape problem, a netscape on Mac
problem or just me missing the point :)
I wanted to include the last modified date on a webpage and have it track
automatically (rather than me remembering to manually alter the date
whenever I modified the page).
I'm very much a novice with javascript but I included the following:
<br>This page was last modified on <br>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write(" " + document.lastModified)
// -->
</SCRIPT>
and checked the page with internet explorer - it seems to work fine - I'm
writing the actual page using BBEdit Lite 6.1 and anytime I alter the file
and save it then the next time I load it explorer shows the correct last
modified date (actually it seems to display 8hrs different - the GMT
equivalent rather than Perth time ? - but I can live with that!)
However when I decided to check the page(s) with Netscape, it shows a 1933
last modified date! also different day, month & time. It does seem to be
tracking the last modified info in that two files saved on the same day but
say 30 seconds apart will show a 30 second difference in the displayed
date/time - just that the date/time will be completely wrong.
For example a web page which:
the Finder shows as last modified on Wed 2 Apr 2003 15:56
IE displays ...modified on Wed Apr 2 23:56:31 2003
Netscape displays ...modified on Feb 25 09:28:15 1933
Browsers are IE 5.0 & Netscape Communicator 4.75, I tried opening the file
on another Mac - just in case my Netscape was somehow playing up but the
result was the same.
I believe Macs & PCs deal with dates differently (I remember transfering
files between Macs/PCs and seeing silly created/modified dates displayed) so
I'm wondering:
- is it a problem with the way the Mac encodes the "last modified" info on
the file (which IE can handle but Netscape can't)
- is it a problem with netscape generally interpreting the date info
- is it a problem with netscape on the Mac interpreting the date info
- is there an easy fix!
I'm sure there must be someone out there with much more
Mac/Webpage/Javascript expertise than me (not hard!) who can see what is
happening here.
(400MHz G4 Ti Powerbook, OS 9.1)
TIA
Neil
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Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Fax: +61 8 9841 6137
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
