How to manage dates on an auto refreshing demo site

Hmm, if that is the case then it sounds like an initial bad planning phase for your data( please don't take that the wrong way.)

Whilst it isn't too difficult to select dates from a string or text file using regex, it might have been better to put a place holder in there instead.

Almost like how codeigniter uses templates or json e.g

"some string containing text and {"date":2015-10-10","databaseid":234"} some more text"

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