Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> [...], 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.

Any version number that could tell me what I use the datestamp for
would be functionally equivalent to a datestamp, except less easy to
verify.

If it were up to me, I'd go with Martin Husemann's idea.

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