Update copyright dates in the footer, add a summary to the top of feb20.

Per prior discussion in #bitcoin-dev, give the feb20 a tldr message
at the top. Also add a world clock link.
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Gregory Maxwell 2012-02-18 22:37:15 -05:00
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<footer>
<div class="inner">
<p>
&copy; Bitcoin Project 2009&ndash;2011<br/>
&copy; Bitcoin Project 2009&ndash;2012<br/>
Released under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/MIT/">MIT license</a>
</p>
</div>

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<div class="container">
<section id="feb20">
<h1>February 20, 2012 Protocol Changes</h1>
<h4><b>Summary:</b> Nothing is required of you right now. In the unlikely
event that something breaks on/after February 20th, come back here.</h4>
<p>
In June 2010 the Bitcoin reference software version 0.2.10 introduced
a change to the protocol: the 'version' messages exchanged by nodes
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All other messages already carry a checksum (for connections between
nodes 0.2.9 and later) but the version messages themselves could not
be changed in a compatible way, so this change was delayed and does not take effect until
Midnight UTC on Feb 20th 2012 to leave users time to upgrade.
<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bitcoin+protocol+change&iso=20120220T00">midnight UTC on Feb 20th 2012</a>
to leave users time to upgrade.
</p><p>
The developers of the Bitcoin reference software are unable to find
any evidence of any nodes still running software prior to 0.2.10 on
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</p><p>
If there are unexpected difficulties this page will be updated with
relevant information.
</p>
</section>
</div>
</p>
<div style="text-align:right">
<i>This notice last updated: Sun Feb 19 03:34:40 UTC 2012</i>
</div>
</section>
</div>