Issue 123273 - Menu 'Help About' should show build date
Summary: Menu 'Help About' should show build date
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.0-dev
Hardware: All Windows 7
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.1.6
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2013-09-17 08:03 UTC by Rainer Bielefeld
Modified: 2019-07-23 21:53 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Screenshots with comments (147.66 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics)
2013-09-17 08:03 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld 		no flags Details
AOO 4.1.6 About dialog (39.70 KB, image/png)
2019-07-23 17:11 UTC, Matthias Seidel 		no flags Details
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Description Rainer Bielefeld 2013-09-17 08:03:43 UTC 
Created attachment 81558 [details]
Screenshots with comments

As you can see in attached screenshots you can see build date/time in menu 'Help -> About' of AOO 4.0.1. Such info is missing for "AOO 4.1.0-Dev – English  UI / German locale - [AOO410m1(Build:9750)  -  Rev. 1521488 - 2013-09-11]" on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit)", own separate user profile.

I think for QA business it would be useful to have the date info additionally to the Revision info, it's more intuitive.
Comment 1 Edwin Sharp 2013-09-19 16:03:09 UTC 
Personally, date is meaningless to me.
But consistency is important.
Maybe change revision numbering from 1234567 to YMDDHHm format?
Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2013-09-19 16:25:24 UTC 
(In reply to Edwin Sharp from comment #1)
> Maybe change revision numbering from 1234567 to YMDDHHm format?

No, the revision number is the only accurate method to determine the used source code.
Comment 3 Matthias Seidel 2019-07-23 17:11:00 UTC 
Created attachment 86715 [details]
AOO 4.1.6 About dialog
Comment 4 Matthias Seidel 2019-07-23 17:13:17 UTC 
All recent builds do have revision number and date in the About dialog.
Closing the issue as fixed.