The anvil.works website’s page footers still display 2024 as the copyright year.
This feels like it should be coded to current year. I see this a lot around the internet.
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As I understand it, copyright is effective on the date the material was written or published. If it hasn’t been changed yet (this calendar year), then the date would logically be earlier than 2025.
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Consider me enlightened
Wouldn’t it be better to make the copyright year update automatically to avoid this issue in the future? Or is there a specific reason it’s left static?
Because there appears to be ongoing curiosity, might as well lift the curtain a little:
This is in fact automated, as part of our website deployment process. We build our website and docs using Hugo, a static site generator that takes in a bunch of data (mostly markdown files, although we also ingest things like autocomplete data for the API docs) and spits out a bunch of HTML that can then be served as static files. This saves us the overhead of generating each page from scratch for every visitor.
This thread started early in the new year, when most of us were still on holiday, and the website had yet to be updated in 2025. That’s no longer the case, and you’ll see the year has updated in the footer already 
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It’s good to know the year is updated automatically as part of the deployment process. Great to see it fixed now.