added 2023-01-30 news and "status_date" and "latest_news" to status.json

index.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <LINK REL="shortcut icon" HREF="/ioccc.ico">
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ioccc.css">
   <META name="description" content="International Obfuscated C Code Contest">
-  <META name="keywords" content="International, Obfuscated, C, c, IOCCC,ioccc, obfuscated, Obfuscate, obfuscate, Landon Curt Noll, chongo, Leonid A. Broukhis, leob, Simon Cooper, sc">
+  <META name="keywords" content="International, Obfuscated, C, c, IOCCC,ioccc, obfuscated, Obfuscate, obfuscate, Landon Curt Noll, chongo, Leonid A. Broukhis, leob">
   <TITLE>The International Obfuscated C Code Contest</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
 <BODY TEXT="#000000">
@@ -99,6 +99,28 @@ to darken &lt; fuscus, dark.] -obfuscation n. obfuscatory adj<BR>
 <A NAME="news"></A>
 <H2>IOCCC news</H2>
 
+<UL>
+<LI TYPE=none><B>2023-01-30</B>
+<UL><LI TYPE=square>
+We added to the
+<A HREF="status.json">status.json</A> page,
+a <I>"status_date"</I> JSON member whose value is the date
+of the most recent <A HREF="status.json">status.json</A> modification,
+in <I>date(1)</I> format.
+<P>
+We also added to the
+<A HREF="status.json">status.json</A> page,
+a <I>"latest_news"</I> JSON member whose value is the date
+of the most recent news item.
+<P>
+For example:
+<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
+    "status_date" : "Mon Jan 30 02:28:44 PST 2023",
+    "latest_news" : "Mon Jan 30 02:28:44 PST 2023"
+</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+</UL>
+</UL>
+
 <UL>
 <LI TYPE=none><B>2022-12-18</B>
 <UL><LI TYPE=square>

status.json

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 {
     "no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
-    "contest" : "closed"
+    "contest" : "closed",
+    "status_date" : "Mon Jan 30 02:28:44 PST 2023",
+    "latest_news" : "Mon Jan 30 02:28:44 PST 2023"
 }