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shakushinnen · Post by **shakushinnen** » August 1st, 2015, 12:27 pm

Hi,
It's often hard to tell how current is the information one reads on the internet.
Failing the obvious tip offs in the article, is there a way of telling this?
Thanks,
..... john

barbaz · Post by **barbaz** » August 1st, 2015, 2:12 pm

Not sure of a good way to do it, but when downloading a resource with wget, it fetches last modified timestamp of the resource from the server... so I guess you could download just the main page of the article with wget and look at the last modified timestamp?
(wget comes with Unix based OSes, but since you're on Windows, you'll need to download a wget binary from the Internet - latest version is 1.16.something - or install the Cygwin package.)

better answer below

Post by **LoudNoise** » August 1st, 2015, 2:28 pm

barbaz, does SeaMonkey have right click --> View page info?

barbaz · Post by **barbaz** » August 1st, 2015, 3:30 pm

LoudNoise wrote:barbaz, does SeaMonkey have right click --> View page info?

Yes it does (it's also listed under View menu)... Oh, thanks, didn't know that the timestamp is listed right there in the General tab. :mrgreen:

Post by **LoudNoise** » August 1st, 2015, 9:57 pm

For the benefit of shakushinnen. Right click on the page and select "View Page Info" Toward the bottom of the dialogue box you should see "Last Modified" and a date. That should usually give you a good idea when it was last updated,

TPR75 · Post by **TPR75** » August 2nd, 2015, 12:55 am

LoudNoise wrote:For the benefit of shakushinnen. Right click on the page and select "View Page Info" Toward the bottom of the dialogue box you should see "Last Modified" and a date. That should usually give you a good idea when it was last updated,

This information (date and time) is not ALWAYS about when site was created but when it was "created" (downloaded and open) in your browser.

Example:
This forum gives me date and time when I opened this thread (2 August 2015 09:49:19).

This site:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/Stat ... 2015-08-04
... gives me "2 August 2015 04:51:59" but I opened it after this thread.

I mean it will not always work.

therube · Post by **therube** » August 2nd, 2015, 6:35 am

> I mean it will not always work.

My thought too.
It might not be page "content" that has changed, but a rotating ad or image... that causes a change in the Modified "date".

Post by **LoudNoise** » August 2nd, 2015, 10:01 am

Good point. It would only work on a static page.

shakushinnen · Post by **shakushinnen** » August 2nd, 2015, 6:19 pm

Hi,
Yes, I've seen, and checked out this right click item, but came away with the impression, from a few pages, that I wasn't really getting a feel for how current the information is.
...... john

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