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This post - and every technical post on the internet - needs a date stamp. Please never blog or post anything without putting a date on it.
by nathan_long 8y ago
This post - and every technical post on the internet - needs a date stamp.
Please never blog or post anything without putting a date on it.
- JdeBP 8y agoIn counterpoint: please look at Last-Modified headers.
- nathan_long 8y agoBecause they are not always present, not convenient, and don't necessarily reflect the actual date when the content was written / updated. Maybe a file was copied and the modification time changed although the content on the page didn't. Maybe the author fixed a spelling mistake 10 years later but didn't update anything else. I want a human-decided, human-readable date on the page for the same reason I want a human-readable headline. For a technical post, they're about equally important, and should not require examining protocol headers to determine.
- joveian 8y agoAlso research papers please.