title: Do you have to put the year in AssemblyCopyrightAttribute?
body: <p>I was recently asked to update the copyright information for all of our projects to show as 2011 rather than 2010. Rather than updating this yearly why not omit the date from the Copyright?</p>
  
  <p>for example: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Assembly: AssemblyCopyright("© MyCorp Limited. All rights reserved")&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>as opposed to: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © 20xx-2011 MyCorp Limited. All rights reserved")&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4w8c1y2s.aspx" rel="nofollow">documentation</a> doesn't really comment as to whether this is likely to be an issue, legal or otherwise.</p>