Entries: option to display both the original and the updated date/time

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Entries: option to display both the original and the updated date/time

Area:
entries

Summary:
When you update the date/time of an entry, have the option of displaying both the original date/time and the last updated date/time.

Description:
This could be a simple box you check ('display updated date') when you edit an entry and I imagine the displayed text could be similar to what you see when a comment's been edited.
I don't feel the need to have a box letting you explain why you edited the entry but some people might like that so it would probably be a good idea to include it plus consistency's always a good thing in my book.

Poll #3073 Entries: option to display both the original and the updated date/time

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Should be implemented as-is.
15 (34.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (13.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
8 (18.2%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (31.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Comments

[allchildren]

As a frequent stealth editor, I can see the use but would not want a forced timestamp -- I'd want it optional or nothing at all.

[ninetydegrees]

That's what I suggested, I believe. :) There are many cases when I wouldn't want to display the edited time either.

[ratcreature]

Of someone edited twice, would there then be two or three timestamps? And would the entry be sorted according to the original or the changed date?

I would probably use soemthing like an editing timestamp, because I already do that sometimes if I edit something that is more than a typo correction, only manually via an ETA (date), but I like having only one time for an entry.

[ninetydegrees]

Even if you edit comments several times there's only one timestamp, the latest one, so I imagined it could worked the same way for entries.

[zvi]

I actually think it would work better with (a) a series of timestamps but (b) sorting based on the original posting time.

the benefit of the series of timestamps is that you could accrete the reasons for editing.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I would like editing timestamps to behave like that. I usually don't want the main date to become different, and entries to reappear constantly on my flist. I mean, I think now if you edit the date, the sorting would still be according to the original posting date too, wouldn't it? I would like to be able to track update edits of an entry though, I have often thought that would be useful.

[msilverstar]

+1

[kyrielle]

+1

[nafs]

+1

[goodbyebird]

+1