Re: lynx-dev lynx: bookmarks: add today's date to entry.

[T.E.Dickey]

> Links get old; if you knew what date you made it, you'd have an idea of its 
> relative trustworthiness. You could also use, if you wanted to, for sorting 
> which links to check up on. 
it's a little more complicated than that: who's going to write the code
that updates existing links (in the bookmark file) to reflect the last
date on which you decided to save it?
  
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Larry W. Virden wrote: 
> >what additional info does the date provide? 
> >I mean, I understand how netscape uses it's dates - it uses it to do time 
> >stamped modification checking.  But what use will lynx's date play?  Just 
> >an indication of when you added the link? 
> > 
> >I guess that, for me, I can't see how that would be at all interesting to 
> >me.  But perhaps for someone else it would.   
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