Did Chrome update today?

cheeaun · on Oct 4, 2013

Would be better to know which channel of Chrome got updated (Dev, Beta, Stable?) and also for which platform (Android, iOS, Desktop browser, Chrome OS, Chromecast?). The site to check up on this http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

It checks that RSS feed, scoped to the Stable builds.

jbrooksuk · on Oct 4, 2013

It says no, but my Chrome just updated... Are you taking into account timezones?

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494320

RossM · on Oct 4, 2013

The logic happens server-side but the user's timezone is posted to /content (so I'm guessing yes).

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

Yes, it should do :)

ck2 · on Oct 4, 2013

This would be more helpful with a mini-month calendar to show what days in the past 30 it did update.

I purposely disable the google updater and only turn it on when I am ready to update.

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

Nice idea.

Right now, it is just checking the Chrome release blog Stable channel to see if a release was pushed on the current day http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan....

bradleyland · on Oct 4, 2013

I really wish people would open source these types of projects. There's not much reason to protect the source code. The value is in the domain. This site already shows up in the 1st page results for the Google query 'did chrome update today' (duh!).

If the source were available somewhere on Github/Bitbucket/whatever, people with feature suggestions could do the implementation and submit a pull request.

markdodwell · on Oct 5, 2013

Here you go: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

Yes, good idea. I will open source it on Github.

mariozivic · on Oct 4, 2013

It just so happened I clicked on this link just a moment after clicking restart link on Chrome to let it update and it still said no?!

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

It is just checking http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-chan... to see if there was a release 'today' (in theory, taking into account time zones).

Does not check to see if you updated today, which is slightly diff.

markdodwell · on Oct 5, 2013

Source code: https://github.com/mkdynamic/dcut

jzzskijj · on Oct 4, 2013

How much VC$$$ was injected into this startup?

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

Couldn't raise any money for it oddly...

eulerphi · on Oct 4, 2013

markdodwell · on Oct 4, 2013

It is a good question.