On Sunday, 3 December 2006 at 23:15:25 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Friday, 1 December 2006 at 14:09:25 +0100, Sascha Wildner wrote: >>> M. Warner Losh wrote: >>>> content changes, but not typos or formatting, is when it should be >>>> bumpped. Also on MFC, the date used is the one in -current, not the >>>> date that you MFC. This makes it hard to automate. >>> >>> Where exactly is the benefit in bumping/having dates on manpages at all? >>> >>> I mean, does anyone actually notice that the date changed (by >>> remembering the date of the previous version) and think, "oh great, >>> there's been a content change, let's check that out"? >> >> Good point. Clearly it's worthwhile knowing what version of the man >> page you have, if only to know whether it's up to date. But the >> $FreeBSD$ tag would give more information there. > > <mode=bde> > $FreeBSD$ or $Date$ would pessimize the display of the date by > uglifying the presentation to the user. > </mode>
Only if you were to display it in its entirety. Macros exist to convert them into correct dates. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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