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@jamesthomson I only do this with the first commit I make in a year. I don't think it's ethical to update your copyright year if nothing changed! ;)

@jamesthomson quite the new years celebration you have planned!

@jamesthomson you don’t have a script for that?

@peternlewis @jamesthomson Technically { glasses pushed up } under the Berne Convention and the laws of most nations, including AU, UK, and US, everything you do is
a) copyrighted by the act of creation and requires no notice (though good practice to do so)
b) is copyrighted for many decades after your death, so the year noted is arbitrary unless you plan to return to life later

@glennf @jamesthomson all true, but copyright dates also serve a purpose to the end user to note the date the software was published when they find it on some old floppy disk under a couch.

@glennf @peternlewis @jamesthomson a couch is a convenient storage device for crumbs, remotes, and AirTags

@peternlewis @jamesthomson Arguably (in court and otherwise), you could © everything the year of your birth and laugh at everyone for the rest of your life and still be protected through life + 70 years.

@jamesthomson @ipstenu I just don’t include the year in my copyright notices anymore. It’s no longer required by law, since I own the copyright until at least 70 years after I’m dead.

If someone wants to know when something changed, they can look at the CHANGELOG or the commit history.

@jamesthomson this is why I have them generated dynamically

@kikeenrique It’s not, but people see it!

@jamesthomson This will be the year that I write a script to do that.

@jamesthomson Nah. Update it if you’re making other changes to that file, don’t bother otherwise. (If that’s a good enough approach for the last two litigious behemoths I’ve worked for, I’m sure it’s good enough for everyone else…)

@jamesthomson In perl, that's easy: $currentyear = `"$(date +%Y)"`; 😂

@jamesthomson you should write a Mac app, or Xcode plugin, to handle that. ;)

@jamesthomson I just used a variable in place of a year string so whenever you open a program it just shows whatever the current year is. I never have to update the year in copyrights hehe

@jamesthomson {{ site.time | date: "%Y" }}

Rebuild, resync, done.

Thanks, Jekyll!