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Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever

by mvelbaum on 1/1/25, 11:06 PM with 13 comments

  • by yongjik on 1/3/25, 2:50 AM

    The website showing two "forward-thinking companies already using our API" and both of them showing "© 2024" at their footer is... perfect.

  • by iFire on 1/2/25, 1:57 AM

    Oh, I was reminded of this chore we had to do years ago.

    https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

    > Copyright (c) 2014-present Godot Engine contributors (see AUTHORS.md).

    Godot Engine did `2014-present` and stopped updating the license years every year.

  • by irs on 1/1/25, 11:44 PM

    Lol, definitely a parody site registered today. Creation Date: 2025-01-01

    Related stack overflow post about that topic. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dat...

  • by jerlam on 1/3/25, 8:40 PM

    The notification banner is also a hoot:

    > Service degradation: Our API is occasionally returning 2024 instead of 2025. Our intern is investigating and working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience and would appreciate if you could stop emailing us about it.

  • by bearjaws on 1/1/25, 11:23 PM

    Funny to see this, about 13 years ago I left a PR comment about not hard coding the year. The dev thought it was unneccessary because there was many months left in the year, while I believed it was trivial to use JS (it was).

    Started a small argument, and ultimately was decided to use JS. Code was in use until the business folded in 2020, 8 years of saving PRs...

  • by uberman on 1/1/25, 11:37 PM

    You realize that the copywrite date means something right? If you have something original you want to protect it and your date just rolls forward you loose the protection and significance for prior years.

    If you just roll the date forward you basically say you invented this today which mostly defeats the purpose of the declaration in my opinion.

    Might just as well remove it entirely.

    Note IANAL

  • by imsh4yy on 1/2/25, 12:13 AM

    Gents, I'm the CEO of getfullyear.com

    Happy to answer any questions regarding our service.

  • by stefanos82 on 1/1/25, 11:35 PM

    Excuse my ignorance, but is this a real website or a parody? I cannot tell...because quite frankly, the solution is a couple of lines, markup combined with a single line of JS.

  • by 01jonny01 on 1/2/25, 12:02 AM

    Haha this is funny and it's not even April fools day.

  • by novoreorx on 1/7/25, 1:56 AM

    “© 2021 getfullyear.com. All rights reserved.” LMAO