Every year around this time-- I update site pages to show the new year for the copyright stamp. I want to make this an automated end year using Javascript. This is probably a stupid question-- how does the legal community view software generated time stamps as related to digital/online copyright stamps? One problem: Javascript is dependent on the computer the page is viewed on-- so it maybe the date of the system is off-- and therefore the copyright stamp.. Q..
In what sense the "legal community" views it? Copyright is automatic and does not require any statement or stamp to enforce it. If your wanting to keep it "up to date" then your best option is to do it serverside thus creating consistency and avoiding any "issue" for those with javascript turned off, the international date line, wrongly set computer clocks etc
Instead of the current year ec 2011 put the below PHP script in there it will automaticly show the current year <?php $year = date('Y'); echo $year; ?>