Auto updating copyright

A short function that helps you keeping the current year in your copyright sentence.
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function autoUpdatingCopyright($startYear){
 
    // given start year (e.g. 2004)
    $startYear = intval($startYear);
 
    // current year (e.g. 2007)
    $year = intval(date('Y'));
 
    // is the current year greater than the
    // given start year?
    if ($year > $startYear)
        return $startYear .'-'$year;
    else
        return $startYear;
}
//Example:
print '© ' . autoUpdatingCopyright(2001) . ' Jonas John';
 
/*
Output:
 
(c) 2001-2007 Jonas John
 
*/
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