[boost] Questions about the timestamp webbot

From: JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z (joaquin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-15 06:51:24

Reading the documentation guidelines by Bill Kempf
I stumbled upon the suggestion of using the so called
timestamp "webbot":

<p>Revised
  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->
  01 January, 2001
  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" -->
</p>

I've got some questions about this:

1. Is this feature still supported by the Boost web site?
2. What is the checksum stuff? Googling for this yield no
  info.
3. Where can I find info on the date formats supported
4. Suppose I've got an HTML doc written on May 10 like this:

  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" ... startspan -->
  10 May, 2004
  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" -->

and later on, say May 15th, I update some of its contents
and commit the changes to the CVS *without manually replacing
the revision date*. Which of these two possibilities
happens (if any)?

3a. When I retrieve the HTML doc from CVS again, it has
automatically been changed to

  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" ... startspan -->
  15 May, 2004
  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" -->

3b. The "10 May, 2004" stays untouched though it is correctly
displayed as "15 May, 2004" when the doc is served by Boost
web site.

Thanks

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo