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auto-update "Updated" dates from in-list values #439

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Many filterlists have info tags inside them á la ! Last updated:, ! Last modified:, ! Updated:, # Updated, # Generated on, # TimeUpdated:, ! TimeUpdated:, and so on. And those dates are almost always pretty accurate indicators for when a list was last updated. Therefore I propose that the Updated values on FilterLists.com could be auto-updated with such values whenever they are available.

There are admittedly a lot of date formats that'd need to be accounted for, e.g. 05 Sep 2018 (…), 05September2018(…), September 5, 2018, 2018-09-05 (…), and probably some other ones as well.

Edit: I also propose that lists whose such values are more than 730 days (2 non-leap years) ago could've had those dates auto-added to the "Discontinued" values as well, but that'd be merely a secondary bonus.

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