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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Date fields 6.2.1 -- what is "current date"?Don't you mean "last edit" date?
David, The OASIS Open Office specification in fact contains two kind of date fields. The <text:date> field described in section 6.2.1 in fact specifies the currtent or an arbitrary fixed date. The <text:creation-date> field that displays the creation date of the document is described in section 6.4.2. There is also a <text:modification-date> field (described in section 6.4.15) that displays the date when the document was modified the last time. Best regards Michael Brauer OASIS Open Office TC chair David A. Wheeler wrote: > Section 6 notes a "creation date", and section 6.2.1 defines > a "date field" that is the "current date". Yet for most > word processing documents, neither dates are interesting; > most people will want the "date last edited". > And the material in section 6.2.1 doesn't allow the specification > of the creation date, even though section 6 intro implies > otherwise -- it only notes how to include the current date. > > Section 6 needs to changed from > "Creation dates... A creation date..." to > "Dates: This includes date last edited, current date, > creation date, and so on." > > Section 6.2.1: > This needs to modified to support display of many dates, > not just the current date. Perhaps add a new field to > select the kind of date that is included? > This should at least allow the selection of the > last-edited date (that should be the same as the > "date" field in the metadata), creation date, current date (now), > printed-last date, and so on. A "reviewed-by" date might > be nice too (though that would have to be supported in the > metadata). > > The critical thing is that this field needs to support > the "last-edited" time. I print many documents with > "automatic" dates, and can't easily compare them because > they print out the "current" date (which is the date I printed it), > instead of the date the document was last edited > (which is the date most people really want). > > This may need a clarification in the text somewhere, that > merely loading a file SHOULD NOT modify the date it was edited. > > --- David A. Wheeler >
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