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Re:Who does that server really serve? (2010) by tjr on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:59PM (#21379645)
From the bottom of the page:

Copyright © 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 Richard Stallman

Updated: $Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:39 $

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Re:Who does that server really serve? (2010) by zemo on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:24PM (#21381228)
the article was published March 18th 2010 in the Boston Review. I don't think the omission is deliberate, I think it is a mistake.
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Re:Who does that server really serve? (2010) by ahbyb on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:12PM (#21379797)
Interesting... one does not expect the timestamp to be there!
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Re:Who does that server really serve? (2010) by hinkley on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:04PM (#21381020)
I think that's an old CVS/SVN trick that didn't come forward into git.

There's a token pattern you can put into files that gets updated at commit time.

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Re:Who does that server really serve? (2010) by smhenderson on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:51PM (#21380225)
That was the traditional place to put it in the 90’s IIRC. Although I seem to remember seeing Updated snips under the title as well sometimes.
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