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Why every GTA 6 Daily page shows an updated date

A publish date tells you when we learned something. An updated date tells you whether it is still true.

BySimon SimekPublished Updated 2 min read
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Aerial night view of a coastal city built around winding waterways and islands

Our verdict

Site note. About how GTA 6 Daily works. Not a claim about the game.

Key facts

  1. 1The publish date never changes; the updated date moves with every factual edit.
  2. 2Both dates appear in the page and in the article's structured data.
  3. 3Fixing a typo is not an update; changing a fact is.

GTA 6 is a game people read about for years before it exists. That makes the age of an article a bad signal on its own: a two-year-old article about the release date may be more accurate today than a story published this morning.

Two dates, two jobs

The publish date is fixed. It is part of the record and it never changes. The updated date moves every time we change a fact, add a source, or correct a mistake.

What counts as an update

Changing a fact, adding a newly confirmed detail, adding a source, correcting an error, or replacing an outdated key fact all count. Fixing a typo does not.

Why it is in the structured data too

Each article's structured data carries both dates. That is how a search engine can tell that a page has been re-checked rather than merely re-crawled.

Questions

Why does a GTA 6 article have two dates?+

The publish date records when the story went live. The updated date records the last time we changed a fact, added a source or corrected an error.

Sources

  1. Rockstar Games newswire
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About the author

Simon Simek

Editor

Simon Simek edits GTA 6 Daily. He follows Rockstar's official channels and Take-Two's investor updates, and puts a Confirmed, Leak or Speculation label on every story he files. Spotted a mistake? Get in touch through the contact page.

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