oneworld explorer rules pdf
 

Not exactly earth-shattering news but a little change with a positive side: the rules pdf can now be accessed through a permanent (not date specific) link:

http://www.oneworld.com/content/libr...rule_sheet.pdf

The rules look unchanged to me, except perhaps for some minor formatting changes, but I haven't checked closely so I am not sure about that.

Thanks.

The only change I could see (from quick scan) is some countries have been removed from the list of far europe countries to/from UK (BMED destinations plus some of the Balkans).

The only trouble with undated files and links is that it is not easy to spot any changes in the future. Even the actual PDF doesn't have a date.

Hence why I go back regular and save the latest version with a new name ;)

It does have a date. If you look in the document's properties you can find that the current document (as at 6 March 2008) was created on 3rd March 2008 at approx 11:30 am.

Regards,
James

Very good point. Didn't think about that. The document I downloaded on 5 March was dated 4 March 6.30 am. Maybe this is the same time as yours but at a different time zone.

Yes, it seems Adobe translates the date/time to your local timezone. Foxit (a different PDF reader) just shows the date/time in the document's timezone -- i.e. date 2008-03-03 time 11:31:58 timezone -0800.

For the geeks out there: To find the date/time/timezone in Adobe go to File --> Document Properties... --> Description Tab --> [Additional Metadata] button --> Advanced (in left column) --> [+] PDF Properties.

Look at ModDate/CreatedDate.

Amazing what sort of information you can find if you dig very deep! :-)

Regards,
James

Or right-click Properties, in File Explorer, without opening the PDF.

Had you bothered to test the above, you wound find it will report the date/time the file was downloaded. So it is not a valid method of finding the creation date/time of the PDF.

Nice try though. :)

Regards,
James

And if you bother to install the current version of Adobe Reader you will see that File Explorer Properties contains a tab with the PDF internal details.

Good point, though you didn't say that in your original post. Also that still adjusts to the local timezone -- it would be better to get the other non-local time so we can compare documents easily when discussing it with people from different timezones. FT has many people from different timezones.

- James