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Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86



> [...], but I wonder if there is any point in keeping the date [in the
> bootloaders]

Personally, I find it useful to make sure I've got the bootloader I
think I do installed, usually after a change-and-rebuild.  "Wait a
minute, this one was built two months ago, not ten minutes ago; what
went wrong?".

I don't often care about this, but when I do, there's not much
substitute I've found.

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