Re: Opinions on .Dd?

[Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 06:30:29AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is people's thought on .Dd in general?
> 
> Personally, I've thought about nuking it more than once. Most developers 
> forget to update it and honestly both running after people and reminding 
> them as well as keeping them up to date myself are a pain.
> 
> Also, at least in DragonFly, I see no real benefit in keeping it up to 
> date, since nobody goes and checks the date on manpages to decide which 
> are worth looking through for new stuff.
> 

my thoughts are "i sympathise" ;)

openbsd uses an mdocdate tag now, which takes all the work out it. but
before that, my attitude was to ignore it - if people update it, fine;
if not, it's not worth worrying about.

but it is useful. even if it doesn;t tell you anything exactly, it gives
an impression that, say, no one has touched this page for seven years. i
think a date can be useful for readers.

jmc
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