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.

In reply to Re^5: Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies by haukex
in thread Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies by LanX

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