Re: no /etc/inittab

[Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Darac Marjal wrote:

> If we go with that idea, that would suggest that Google web pages (which, for 
> argument's sake, we shall assume have a stable code base) would be dated from 
> some months ago, based on when someone "wrote" the page. The date at which the 
> google web results page was "written" has no relevancy on the freshness of the 
> results.
   I think it has. If I look for something today with Google, the results
   will be today's results. If I print these results to read them later, it's
   relevant to know when they were found, as the same search will give
   different results later (of course, you can tell me that I can
   write myself the date on the paper...)
> Similarly, if we take the "date" to be the date the page is rendered, what use 
> has that? Can you cite google and say "I was the top search for 
> 'GoogleWhackBlatts' on Thursday 2nd May"? No, because Google's search results 
> are dynamic. You can't look back at the archive to see how google looked the 
> day you were born, etc.
>
> I'm not saying that putting a date on "howto" pages, "reamde"s etc is not 
> useful. I'm just saying that an "Authored on" date for EVERY web page doesn't 
> make sense.

  Yes, the most important is the date of documents, but as a lot of people are
  lazy or dizzy, and they will not put it if they are not obliged. The experience
  clearly proves that I'm right.
  If you think that some date useless, you are not obliged to use it.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel