Decides on the type of marker to be displayed for a given node.
$nid: Node ID whose history supplies the "last viewed" timestamp.
$timestamp: Time which is compared against node's "last viewed" timestamp.
One of the MARK constants.
function node_mark($nid, $timestamp) {
  global $user;
  $cache =& drupal_static(__FUNCTION__, array());
  if (!$user->uid || !module_exists('history')) {
    return MARK_READ;
  }
  if (!isset($cache[$nid])) {
    $cache[$nid] = history_read($nid);
  }
  if ($cache[$nid] == 0 && $timestamp > HISTORY_READ_LIMIT) {
    return MARK_NEW;
  }
  elseif ($timestamp > $cache[$nid] && $timestamp > HISTORY_READ_LIMIT) {
    return MARK_UPDATED;
  }
  return MARK_READ;
}