Tell HN: When using Notepad (Windows), press F5 to print current date and time.

11 points by yeleti ↗ HN

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This is a pain when I teach kids HTML using notepad. I instruct them to ctrl+s to save, alt+tab over to their browser and F5 to refresh.

Inevitable they forget the middle part and we end up with webpages filled with timestamps.

Just tell them to press Ctrl+R to refresh.
If you start the file with ".LOG" it will add date when the file is reopened.

Stupid party trick.