new package filedate (15oct12)

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+FIRST UPLOAD 2012-10-17:
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+`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.