Bug#978552: 978552: conventions for writing Linux man pages
As explained in [1], there actually are conventions for writing man
pages given in 'man 7 man-pages'. Thus .TH line can be trusted to
contain the date of last non-trivial change:
date:
The date of the last nontrivial change that was made to the man page.
(Within the man-pages project, the necessary updates to these timestamps
are handled automatically by scripts, so there is no need to manually
update them as part of a patch.) Dates should be written in the form
YYYY-MM-DD.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/02/msg00040.html
Andrius
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