Auto-update a copyright date post-build?

[John Cook]

Is there a way that I can use a copyright range such as 2013-2018 on the home page and have it change to 2013-2019 on Jan 1? A variable won't do that.

[SteveS]

My question has to be why?

Copyright applies to the date something was created or significantly updated, not automatically applied every year.

Not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, just curious.

[ChoccieMuffin]

Please excuse a facetious response, but would a calendar reminder be the appropriate solution? I'm afraid that's what we do! At the beginning of each year I go into my global project and change that date in one location, just once, and from then on the date flows out to the child projects the first time they're built.

[NorthEast]

You can insert a

Is there a way that I can use a copyright range such as 2013-2018 on the home page and have it change to 2013-2019 on Jan 1? A variable won't do that.

Nope - a variable will do that.

Open your variable set, click Add DateTime variable, and enter the variable format yyyy. You can choose if the date reflects the build date, file save date, etc.

[John Cook]

Steve: The reason is that our legal dept. wants us to do that. Not something I'm willing to die for.

[John Cook]

Dave: I need it to update dynamically post-build. As I understand it, I need to use JavaScript. I asked one of our developers for help.

[John Cook]

If anyone's interested, here's the code:

<script>document.write(new Date().getFullYear())</script>