Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> As was written early in this my thread:
> http://www.nabble.com/Coding-Guidelines%2C-encodings%2C-keywords-td23662661.html
> (http://markmail.org/thread/d6dsgrsfvnuzclt7)
> 
> there are problems with Subversion $Date$ keyword:
> 1. It uses localized names for the month and the day of the week
> 2. It writes those localized strings using UTF-8, while our sources
> are ISO-8859-1
> 3. The time that is printed is in local timezone
> 
> There are two possible solutions (besides ignoring the issue):
> a) Use $Id:$ keyword instead
> b) Remove the keyword
> 
> For the java sources, I propose the simpler one of the above:
> 
> I propose to remove *all* SVN keywords from our *.java sources, where they are
> used in JavaDoc comments.
> That includes the following four keywords: Author Date Id Revision
> 
> As it is a documentation change, I won't propose a patch, but go C-T-R.
> 
> What are your opinions?
> If there are any objections to such a change, please write so.

I'm happy getting rid of all of them. The only times I have used them
there have been equally quick, equally effective ways of finding out the
information I was after (usually Tomcat version).

Mark


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