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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+FIRST UPLOAD 2012-10-17:
+
+`filedate.sty' provides basic access to the date of a LaTeX
+source file according to its \ProvidesFile, \ProvidesPackage,
+or \ProvidesClass entry -- the "info date" --, as well as to
+its modification date according to \pdffilemoddate if the
+latter is available. Moreover commands are provided to compare
+the "info date" with the modification date, with "today"'s
+date, or with another date that a script accessing modifica-
+tion dates such as adhocfilelist.sh may insert, and to choose
+the effect of comparisons (error vs. "notice", reference date
+characterization). Thus updating the "info date" ("date con-
+sistency") of a source file may be ensured by a test during
+typesetting from it or by some (shell/TeX) script.
+
+In fact the test today admonished me to update the
+documentation source and driver `filedate.tex'. Another
+motivating example of "date inconsistency" was `nicefilelist'
+v0.6 as of 2012-10-11 (see version history) with "info date"
+2012/10/03.
+
+SECOND UPLOAD 2012-10-25: v0.3 has
+
+ * bug fix with \DatesDiffNotices
+ * new \DatesDiffWarnings
+
+THIRD UPLOAD (r0.3a) 2012-11-06:
+
+ * a checking script `fdatechk.tex' is input both by
+ documentation generator and file list generator
+ (`filedate.tex', `srcfiles.tex')
+ - recommendation for using the package
+ * still contains `filedate.sty' v0.3
+
+FOURTH UPLOAD 2012-11-11: v0.4 has
+
+ * \FileDateAutoChecks after which each \Provides...
+ checks info date against its \pdffilemoddate
+ * \FileDateAutoChecks* additionally checking dates
+ of main file (hopefully \jobname.tex)
+ * \NoFileDateAutoChecks restoring the original behaviour
+ of \Provides..., e.g., for files whose original time
+ stamp has not been preserved in copying/sending
+
+UPLOAD 2013-03-27, v0.41:
+
+ * \FileDateLevelChecks etc., \FileDateUserChecks etc.
+ do not check as much automatically as
+ \FileDateAutoChecks does. E.g., .fd files may be
+ loaded "indirectly" whose modification date is not
+ the \Provides... date, ignore them!
+