Resetting copyright dates, etc-Jan 1st stuff

It's cool to have "copyright 2003" on January 1

[jsinger]

Yeah, I know it's not legally significant anymore. But I think having the current year as copyright date is important for an e-commerce site.

It shows your site is really up to date. Also says something about the webmaster's social priorities.

---
Gotta reset my counters too around midnight and make paper backups of 2002 stats.

By the way, hope everyone has their copyright date in an Include File or something like that.

[Crazy_Fool]

>>But I think having the current year as copyright date is
>>important for an e-commerce site.
>>It shows your site is really up to date. Also says
>>something about the webmaster's social priorities.

yeah, suppose i'd better do some updates once i've sobered up ... errr .... does that say something about my social priorities? :)

>>By the way, hope everyone has their copyright date in an
>>Include File or something like that.

not on every site ..... i've probably still got some 2001 copyright notices hanging around on very old sites ....

[TallTroll]

Its a confidence thing, IMO. A site that can't keep its copyright notice up to date, or any other piece of variable content, is projecting a less professional image than it might. This need not be a killer, but it costs you credibility unnecessarily.

You'll get a few days grace for time sensitive stuff, but try not to push it :)

[Crazy_Fool]

confidence? nah we're just too busy! and a little bit lazy too :)

[hakre]

let this be done with php. then you don't have to care about it :)

[Crazy_Fool]

yeah, it's done on most sites, but we have some that are long overdue a rebuild ...

[jsinger]

Three years ago (y2k) I checked about 10 major portal and commerce sites to see when they changed their copyright date, at least on their main page. Oddly none changed right after New Years. As I recall, almost all had updated by February.

Maybe they thought they could avoid Y2K problems by remaining "copyright 1999" forever.