last-modified-examples
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Purpose
Many web pages, espacially Wiki pages, display the date of the last modification. This date could be made machine-readable using datetime-design-pattern.
Existing practise
Content management and content publishing software
Wiki software
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Blog software
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Forum software
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Individual web sites and web services
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Suggested template:
==== [http://url.tld Sitename] ====
* How is the date displayed in <body>:
Citing the date from a random page of this site.
* Is the date of the page creation also displayed in <body>?
* Where:
Top or bottom of the page
Element name (and its class and id)
Parent element name (and its class and id)
* Date in <meta>:
Is the date represented in <meta>?
How? e.g: “<meta name="date" ...”,“<meta name="DC.Date" ...”
* Date in HTTP Header:
Is a Last-Modified Header sent by the server?
If yes, is it equal to the date displayed in the browser window?
See also
- datetime-design-pattern
- RFC 2616: Last-Modified Header (p. 134)
- Dublin Core 'modified' term: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#modified