Computer guys (and girls) - info needed.
Submitted: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 19:20
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Member - Dave B1 (QLD)
While I wait for new troopy been researching in preparation for big trip next year. Get a tad annoyed after reading pages of interesting info only to learn the next tour of such and such is on 5th April 2009. Great, just wasted all that time. Any way I can tell if a site is current before I waste time reading out of date info?
Thanks
Dave
Reply By: Bazooka - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 20:27
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 20:27
Dave - if you are using Google it is easy to limit your search by date (menu bar on LHS after you do a basic search allows you to restrict your search in a number of ways; or, use 'Advanced Search' and set your parameters there). Some net programmers have various tricks to 'update' pages so you will still get some old info.
In Firefox, if you right click on a page you will see 'View Page Info' which gives a page update date. In IE it is under 'Properties'. This also can be misleading as the date can refer to changes to frames, ads etc, not just content.
Not sure if this is what you meant.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Dave B1 (QLD) - Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 20:41
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 20:41
Neither am I but I'll
check that out tomorrow. I still write letters.
Thanks
Dave
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Follow Up By: vk1dx - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 08:55
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 08:55
Dave
This is a big problem with the internet. If even you agree to any conditions you should download them as they can change the next second etc and your agreement is null if you have your own copy. Lots of other complications as
well.
To your question: At least using the date filter as bazooka detailed will get you closer to "now".
But essentially apart from a date being supplied with the post or document etc there isn't any way of telling how current the
information is. That's why my first paragraph. Watch out for agreements, conditions and comments when buying on line.
Phil
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Follow Up By: Member - Dave B1 (QLD) - Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 10:09
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 10:09
Thanks Phil
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