266257 - about:mozilla date is wrong

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Janes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

I know there's more important bugs out there (e.g. most of them) but the
about:mozilla text is quite a significant emblem for the Mozilla foundation.
Well, sort of.

Currently it's 7:15, but now the release date of 1.0 final has been confirmed it
should be updated to 11:9.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233499 ***

Comment 2

[David Janes]

I don't think this is a duplicate of 233499 as that bug refers to the text, not
the date.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

The date is part of the text. We're not updating it just because there's a new
release. Ofcourse, Ben could celebrate it with a new text, but that's his decision.

Comment 4

[David Janes]

The date in the original Netscape about:mozilla was the release date of Netscape
1.0 final.
Therefore to keep with tradition Firefox should have the release date of 1.0
final in about:mozilla. After that it doesn't matter.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

note that the original Netscape 1.0 concept was far different from the
about:mozilla that commemmorated the source release (3:31).  7:15 is important
as the day when Mozilla came into its own.  Plus, we'd only change the date if
we had a new passage as well, since the current passage is from 7:15. ;)