Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:52:00PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > [...], 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?".

That's what the version number is supposed to tell you.

Joerg