TrackBack Comment Timestamping
I’m editing old entries here on this site—I have other things to do, but my brain is absolute mush, and I’m waiting on inputs from someone—and fixing bad links, etc.
I decided to run a TrackBack from entry to another, as I am prone to do.
I didn’t realize that the timestamp on the TB would be the timestamp of the TB, rather than for the post. This seems to be broken to me; if you go back, as I am, and do TB’s, the timestamp should speak to the time of the entry, not the time when you went back to clean things up.
You could argue me off of this point if you wanted, though. Feel free.
Someday I need to understand trackbacks and pings on blogs.
June 9th, 2004 at 15:49Same here.
June 9th, 2004 at 16:07More on TrackBack Timestamping
Most of the blognoscenti may well say that TrackBack is dead, but … just now, I realized that I hadn’t done proper linking between two entries, and so I sent a TB from an old entry to a new one. I thought about going in and editing the co…
August 29th, 2005 at 05:18[...] Geof posted about Trackback Comment Timestamping and it seemed like a trackback was more appropriate than a comment. [...]
September 9th, 2005 at 09:50