The year - what format is the best?

As we are coming into a new year, I was wondering what format is the best for the copywrite year on my page?

Is it '© 2005-2006' or just '© 2006', what do you reckon?

 

I use both of those methods but I am changing over to my prefferred way

"This is the © of sitename unless otherwise stated"

This saves with hassel of having to change the date every year.

If I had to choose which one of your dates to use it would be the first

'© 2005-2006'

 

my first impression is to agree with the above poster - you're really simply stating that this is YOURS and what's important is to detail that fact.

if i had to choose a date format for the copyright info, i'd say just use '© 2005'. Saying '© 2006' just invalidates the length of your claim to the copyright. If it's a legitimate copyright, you should know exactly when you copyrighted the material - if it's a "bogus" copyright (by bogus, i don't mean invalid - i mean simply that it's simply a date you are claiming to be the owner of the content from, with no actual legal documentation or claim) then by all means just say 2005 - the older the copyright the better.

VG

 

I use the 2005-2006 also, well, i do now, i forgot all about changing them

 

usually, you should use START - END.
and the copyright sign is indeed not related to the year, as opposed to the company.