Dynamically update the year in the footer

[MomentQYC]

Dynamically update the year in the footer

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[anoadragon453]

Hi @MomentQYC, thanks for your PR!

I'm just checking with our legal team whether we're allowed to do this 😋 (because it would be convenient).

[anoadragon453]

So it turns out that the copyright date in the footer of the website should reflect either:

1. The original publication date only (so, just © 2023), or
2. The original publication date to (-) the date the content on the page was most recently edited (© 2023-2024).

Since the content of this page isn't actually being updated dynamically, then the copyright header doesn't need to be updated either. We can either leave the date as © 2023, or update the footer (© 2023-X) whenever the page is edited.

Personally I'm leaning towards 1. (the current state) as it's less work, but I appreciate that it's then a magnet for people wanting to update it. I also thought that copyright dates in website footers should always reflect the current year!

I think the best thing to do would to add a page to our documentation about copyright headers and footers repeating what I've explained above, and then link to that from here (and any other related spots in the codebase). If you'd like to take that on, go for it! Otherwise I accept that it's probably more work than you signed up for.

And again, we appreciate the effort of the original PR :)

[MomentQYC]

So it turns out that the copyright date in the footer of the website should reflect either:

1. The original publication date only (so, just © 2023), or
2. The original publication date to (-) the date the content on the page was most recently edited (© 2023-2024).

Since the content of this page isn't actually being updated dynamically, then the copyright header doesn't need to be updated either. We can either leave the date as © 2023, or update the footer (© 2023-X) whenever the page is edited.

Personally I'm leaning towards 1. (the current state) as it's less work, but I appreciate that it's then a magnet for people wanting to update it. I also thought that copyright dates in website footers should always reflect the current year!

I think the best thing to do would to add a page to our documentation about copyright headers and footers repeating what I've explained above, and then link to that from here (and any other related spots in the codebase). If you'd like to take that on, go for it! Otherwise I accept that it's probably more work than you signed up for.

And again, we appreciate the effort of the original PR :)

I apologize for the delay in the middle.
I think my solution could be to just dynamically update the year, or roll back to the year of the change (i.e. this change), thus solving the problem once and for all.
Also what you said about adding content to the document, could you elaborate on that?