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How to keep a date current in Markdown files

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I'd like to put a copyright in a LICENSE.md file, but I'd hate to go back on Jan 1st every year to update the date, is there a way to do:

Copyright [current year] Name in Markdown?

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Costa Michailidis Avatar asked Jan 22 '15 17:01

Costa Michailidis


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1 Answers

There is no support for this in vanilla Markdown, but there are several versions of Markdown floating around out there.

If you update your question to specify a Markdown processor we may be able to provide a more specific answer.

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Chris Avatar answered Oct 22 '22 17:10

Chris