I have noticed that there are posts that use relative time terms like "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "last month", "next week", etc but give no dates. These relative time terms are only useful for identifying the referenced time, if the post is being read on the day it's posted. But posts remain indefinitely and months or years down the road these terms would only be useful to professional forensic investigators.
It would be good if posters remember to provide a date when referencing information that is specific to a particular day. In some cases the particular day being referenced isn't really important. But in other cases it is. For example, imagine there is a post referencing "today's watchtower study" and which does not mention the date of the session nor the date of the magazine. How is a future reader, 5 years down the road, intent on finding that particular study article, going to find it?
I was wondering if it's possible to create a special script that would read an OP, scanning it for relative time references like "today", "next month", "yesterday", etc and variations thereof ("todays", "today's",...), and automatically append the appropriate date or insert a caption-thingy so when you point at the reference the appropriate date, month or year is displayed based on the specific time reference given and the date of the post. So for example an OP is uploaded today (March 14, 2016) that reads:
"Next week's CLAM meeting is going to be full on cult mode!"
During processing the script searches the text for relative time references and sees "Next week's" (which is listed in its "database" of relative time terms). It then looks to see how that term is to be treated and sees that the date of the week after the upload has to be inserted. So it then inserts an html tag on the term "Next week's" such that when a user points at it a yellow tool tip or caption pops up displaying the date of the week being referenced "March 21-27, 2016"