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[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:59:48PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday,  3 December 2006 at 23:15:25 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <20061204002231.GB36269 at wantadilla.lemis.com>
> >             "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> 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.

There's no problem here to solve; move along, people :)

Ceri
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