Re: Automatic date update

[email protected] (David Newman)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Organization Network Test Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/26/08 8:18 PM, Jeff Peng wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:07 AM, John Jack <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I want a perl script to automatically update the date on our home page
>> everytime an update is done on our site. By the way, we run a build script
>> everytime we upload new stuffs into our site or do a re-upload.
>>
> 
> I just thought what you wanted is "rsync" tool.
> rsync could do the data-sync automatically for you, see `man rsync`.
> 

The RCS (revision control system) also can do this. Just put the string 
$Date$ in your HTML, and the Web page will display the date and time the 
file was checked in.

Here's one among many RCS tutorials:

ttp://www.madboa.com/geek/rcs/

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