Last updated timestamp

Visitors see when the current page was last changed, in English or French, so they can judge freshness of facts or policies. Authors only set alignment; the date and time come from the page itself.

Add Last Updated Timestamp from the Concordia component group. The component renders a paragraph with the class text-large (Bootstrap utility) and inline colour and alignment. The visible string is built in Java from the page language and cq:lastModified.

1. Root: class="c-last-updated" (from _cq_htmlTag).
2. Paragraph: <p class="text-large"> with inline style for colour #4b4b4b and text-align from the dialog (left or right).
3. Inner span: Contains formattedDateTime from the Sling model (includes the words Last updated: or Dernière mise à jour : and the formatted date and time).

(Placeholder asset: left-aligned English example and French example.)

Help: dialog.xml helpPath points to the design-system help page for this component (last-updated-timestamp.html under the design content path).

Logic is implemented in LastUpdatedModel (concordia-core):

• Page language comes from currentPage.getLanguage(false); fr selects French strings, otherwise English.
• Timestamp comes from cq:lastModified on the current page. If that resolves to a date, formatting runs as below. The model also contains fallback strings when the modified date is null (for example Last updated: unpublished page / Dernière mise à jour : page non publiée), though in typical flows a default date may be used when the property is absent (see source if you need exact edge cases).

English

• Prefix: Last updated:
• Date and time use a month–day–year and 12-hour clock SimpleDateFormat in the model, then DateFunctions.toUcsTimeFormat, which adjusts the string to a UCS-style form (for example :00 stripped on the hour, AM/PM replaced with a.m. / p.m.). See LastUpdatedModel for the exact pattern.

French

• Prefix: Dernière mise à jour :
• Date: DateFunctions.getFrenchDate (long French date).
• Time: SimpleDateFormat("k'h'mm") appended after a comma (24-hour style with an h before minutes, for example 14h30).

• Footers or article bottoms where readers should see when the page was last saved in AEM.

• When cq:lastModified should not be shown (legal or policy reasons); remove the component or use manual copy instead.

Do

• Place the component where metadata does not interrupt the main task (often end of main content or aside).
• Align right when it must line up with other right-aligned metadata on the template.

Don't

• Don’t treat the string as a live “last reviewed” claim unless editorial process aligns with cq:lastModified.