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bug #277: make timestamps in HTML output optional

Submitted by:	Erik Brangs <ebrangs>
Submitted on:	Tue Mar 29 12:11:58 2016

Category:	None	Priority:	5 - Normal
Severity:	1 - Wish	Status:	None
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Open/Closed:	Closed

Thu Mar 31 18:26:42 2016, comment #5: thanks. i found several more uses of :today, and either configured them similarly (off by default, timestamp option to enable) or just deleted them (css files, a couple others where the code wasn't following the same pattern. installed in tex4ht (r164) and tl (r40194). the massive code duplication throughout the sources continues to be a big headache. sigh.	Karl Berry <karl>
Wed Mar 30 07:47:40 2016, comment #4: OK, no problem, you are probably right. There is another patch :) (file #233)	Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Tue Mar 29 21:37:49 2016, comment #3: thanks for the report (Erik) and patch (Michal). unless someone objects, i actually think it would be better to remove timestamps by default and let enabling them be the option. those gratuitious changes in the output have always been a hassle. wdyt?	Karl Berry <karl>
Tue Mar 29 14:53:44 2016, comment #2: Thanks. Disabling the timestamp only on request is fine for my use case. I suppose Debian could always carry a custom patch if they'd rather not have timestamps by default.	Erik Brangs <ebrangs>
Tue Mar 29 14:22:57 2016, comment #1: I think that it is better to introduce option to disable the timestamp if it isn't needed, rather than to disable it by default. I've added `notimestamp` option to tex4ht-html4.tex, the patch is attached. (file #232)	Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Tue Mar 29 12:11:58 2016, original submission: Currently, tex4ht always outputs meta tags that contain the date. Please consider introducing an option to control this behaviour. There's a patch ( debdiff.txt ) for the Debian package of tex4ht at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789843 that could possibly be adapted to implement this. The patch likely wasn't forwarded to you because the Debian package currently has no Debian maintainer. A potential use case for the control of date in meta tags is the update of HTML files that are kept in a version control repository. If all HTML files are always generated at once (even for source files that didn't change), the new HTML files will differ from the old ones only in the date. This leads to diffs that mostly contain noise (i.e. the changed dates). That makes the real changes harder to spot.	Erik Brangs <ebrangs>

Attached Files

file #233: timestamp.patch added by michal_h21 (1023B - text/x-patch)

file #232: notimestamp.patch added by michal_h21 (1005B - text/x-patch)

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Date	Changed By	Updated Field	Previous Value	Replaced By
Thu Mar 31 18:26:42 2016	karl	Open/Closed	Open	Closed
Wed Mar 30 07:47:40 2016	michal_h21	Attached File	-	Added timestamp.patch, #233
Tue Mar 29 14:22:57 2016	michal_h21	Attached File	-	Added notimestamp.patch, #232

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