Re: [hypermail] New META date tag feature

At 03:10 PM 02/06/02 -0500, William R. Knox wrote:
>It will create output based on the number of seconds from epoch that an
>e-mail was sent as obtained elsewhere in hypermail. I figured that, even
>though the information was available other places in the HTML, it was
>useful to follow a standard for the META tags.

That will be useful to me as I'm using perl's Date::Parse to convert dates to an epoch timestamp.

Thanks,

>
>Thanks for the tip about swish.
>
> Bill Knox
> Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
> The MITRE Corporation
>
>On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:14:00 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Bill Moseley <moseley_at_hank.org>
>> To: hypermail_at_hypermail.org
>> Subject: Re: [hypermail] New META date tag feature
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, William R. Knox wrote:
>>
>> > I have implemented a new feature in hypermail to include the META Date
tag
>> > compatible with the Dublin Core standard (which specifies the format
>> > YYYY-MM-DD), both by default and as a macro (%D) usable in message header
>> > files. This date is useful for search engines, such as the newly released
>> > ht://Dig 3.1.6, which make use of this META tag, if it exists, to
>> > determine the age of the file instead of the modification date. Given the
>> > update that happens to message files when a new message comes in, this
>> > seems like a useful patch to implement accurate date-specific searches on
>> > your archive.
>>
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> Does this just rewrite comments such as
>>
>> <!-- received="Sun Sep 09 16:51:47 2001" -->
>>
>> as a <meta> tags?
>>
>> Swish-e can do something similar. Try a search at:
>>
>> http://search.apache.org/archives/mod_perl-dev/
>>
>> Swish can parse, search and return meta tags in search results, but in
>> this case it's parsing the data from the comments in the hypermail files.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Moseley moseley_at_hank.org
>>
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