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Re: [tlug] Website Update Prompt



On 1/24/06, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 24/01/06, Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com> wrote:
>
> > <meta name="CREATED" content="20040614;14240400">
> > <meta name="CHANGED" content="20040615;9144900">
> >
> > what are the second set of numbers - "14240400" and "9144900" -
> > about?
>
> I would assume a datestamp, to the 100th of a second precision. Google?
>
> Google couldn't find anything within the five-minute cutoff (of my
> patience). If you have time, feel free to hunt further.

I just updated that page and obliterated those numbers....  In fact,
I've been obliterating a slew of them, and suddenly I'm thinking "Wait
a minute... maybe I better keep those and modify them rather than
vaporize them!"

> Otherwise, it is probably safe to assume that if you change a page
> more than once a day, simply incrementing the second number will
> accomplish what you want, namely getting the browser to notice that a
> change has occured.
>
> I guess that this is a non-standard META tag, as I don't see it in the
> normal list of HTTP-EQUIV tags:
>
> http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/metatags.detail.html#equiv

There were originally generated when I created an HTML page with OpenOffice...

Lyle

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