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in thread Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies

But you understand my problem?

If I reply to an updated post of yours and need to update myself, how would I flag that in the title? :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

PS: FWIW, I'm thinking of expanding my wiki-mechanism to automatically truncate (updates) from titles.

I might also include a "last edit"-comment in the text, though I'm not sure if JS can provide a reliable timestamp.

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Re^5: Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies
by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 13, 2021 at 16:33 UTC
    But you understand my problem?

    Yes, I do, and I have to say that often my question of whether or not someone has seen my update applies to newcomers who themselves don't use the (updated) tag (and who sometimes don't notice /msgs).

    I'm not sure if JS can provide a reliable timestamp.

    Some options to get the current browser time: new Date().toString(), new Date().toISOString(), new Date().toLocaleString("de-DE"), and more.

    PS: FWIW, I'm thinking of expanding my wiki-mechanism to automatically truncate (updates) from titles.

    That would probably be a good option!

    I'm against removing "(updated)" globally for everyone - if anything global is done, I'd prefer something like my regex above.

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      > Some options to get the current browser time:

      current browser time != current server time != current reader time ;-)

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        current browser time != current server time

        I'd hope it's safe to assume the browserclient and server both use NTP nowadays ;-) See also new Date().toUTCString() (= "Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:43:24 GMT")

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