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A Newspaper with no Date

Crazy, right?

We’ve all come across web article pages that don’t have date on them. In the web-time, days or years can matter, yet when a website doesn’t tag every article with a date, you have no idea how current there information is. This is fine for a very small subset of articles, but when reading an article on Windows7 or Xen virtualization, certainly you can understand that the date of the article provides context for what the writer knew. If the Windows7 article was written in August 2009 or earlier, they were looking at an RC, Release Candidate, not the final publicly released version.

Reading a blog or article that isn’t a date tagged is like getting a newspaper without a date.

This applies to any document. Think of how much adding just a date to a page and document tell each reader. What happens when there are 2 or more versions of a document? Well, if every page has a date on it, there is not issue. The reader KNOWS which is the latest information.

Time matters, so please put a date on your articles, blogs, websites, AND paper documents.