title: Do copyright dates need to be updated?
body: <p>Every now and then I see a web site that has an old copyright date. In my mind, I always think "Look at the sucker who forgot to update his copyright year!" Then, while I was hard-coding a copyright year into the site I'm currently designing, it suddenly struck me: </p>
  
  <p>How the hell am I going to remember to update this?</p>
  
  <p>My immediate reaction was just to use some server-side coding to automatically display the current year. Bam, fixed.</p>
  
  <p>Later, I began to ponder to myself, if someone as big and smart as Google can <a href="http://goo.gl/" rel="noreferrer">overlook this</a>, perhaps there's something wrong in doing it this way. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I guess what I'm really wondering is <em>why I feel compelled</em> to keep the copyright year up to date. Is there a reason, or is my chronic OCD to blame?</p>
  
  <p>If there is a good reason to keep them up to date, why don't more developers use server-side code? I see these "mistakes" <a href="http://www.times.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html" rel="noreferrer">all</a> <a href="http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/copyright.html" rel="noreferrer">over</a> <a href="http://www.fpsece.net/" rel="noreferrer">the</a> <a href="http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/" rel="noreferrer">place</a>.</p>