last-modified-examples

Last modified examples

Many web pages, espacially Wiki pages, display the date of the last modification. This date could be made machine-readable using datetime-design-pattern.

The purpose of this wiki page is to collect real-world examples of web pages which display the date of their last modification and how this is done.

Contributors

• Robert Bachmann (initial author)

If you contribute real-world examples, please add your name here.

Content management and content publishing software

coWiki

Example from http://www.cowiki.org/142.html:

“Modified: 20 Feb 05, 19:57” is displayed at the bottom of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

DokuWiki

Example from http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki:

“Last modified: 2005-08-01 20:10” is displayed at the bottom of the page. (it is written in grey color in the right corner)

No Last-modified header is sent.

MoinMoin

Example from http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/:

“last edited 2005-08-04 20:56:50 by ...” is displayed at the bottom of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

GetWiki

Example from http://www.getwiki.net/wiki.php:

“last modified 19:04, 17 Jul 2005” is displayed at the bottom of the page.

“Last-modified: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:04:43 GMT” is sent by the server.

Mediawiki

Example from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:

“This page was last modified 04:22, 24 August 2005.” is displayed in the bottom of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

Perspective

Example from http://www.high-beyond.com/perspective.aspx?action=view&page=documentation:Index:

“Last Edited: 6/Jul/05 19:25:22 by Alan Slater” is displayed at the top of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

PhpWiki

Example from http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/:

“Last edited on Tuesday, July 5, 2005 10:07:12 pm by "wikimaster"” is displayed at the bottom of the page.

“Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:07:12 GMT” is sent by the server.

PmWiki

Example from http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PmWiki:

“Page last modified on August 28, 2005, at 05:24 PM” is displayed at the bottom of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

TWiki

Example from http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WebHome:

“12 Aug 2005 - 16:37 - JoaquimFerreira” is displayed at the top of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

Wikka

Example from http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage:

“2005-08-28 12:25:55” is displayed ath the bottom of the page. (Text is a link to http://wikka.jsnx.com/HomePage/revisions)

No Last-modified header is sent.

XWiki

Example from http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome:

“Creator: WebHome Date: 2004/04/20 23:57” and “Last Author: zhang hua Date: 2005/08/29 14:04” are displayed at the bottom of the page

“Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:04:36 GM” is sent by the server.

Midgard CMS

Example from http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/

No Last Updated information shown on the page by default, though is available using the “<(last-updated)>” template

HTML headers include “<meta name="lastupdated" content="2005-09-14" />”

“Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:08:21 GMT” is sent by the server.

Individual web sites

bbc.co.uk

Example from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3640454.stm:

“Last Updated: Thursday, 9 September, 2004, 16:21 GMT 17:21 UK” is displayed at the top of the page.

No Last-modified header is sent.

php.net (documentation pages)

Example from http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php:

“Last updated: Sun, 09 Oct 2005” is displayed at the top of the page.

“Last-Modified: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:24:36 GMT” is sent.

See also

• datetime-design-pattern
• RFC 2616: Last-Modified Header (p. 134)
• Dublin Core 'modified' term: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#modified