On 10/1/2012 10:06 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

Actually, that's not a bad idea. My original idea was to warn if it
*was* outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched
that idea.

Is there really no way to get a 'last updated' time from the site where the database is kept?

Sure, but there is no way to get a last updated time from the database that's installed. And making an HTTP request when you call localize() to check if the database is outdated or not doesn't seem to be a great idea.
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On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 10/1/2012 10:06 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

Actually, that's not a bad idea. My original idea was to warn if it
\*was\* outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched
that idea.

Is there really no way to get a 'last updated' time from the site where the database is kept?

Sure, but there is no way to get a last updated time from the database that's installed. And making an HTTP request when you call localize() to check if the database is outdated or not doesn't seem to be a great idea.

//Lennart