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Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86
> Just because you build any branch, including current, 3 month ago,
> doesn't say much about the sources.
True. What I use the timestamp for (when I use it at all, that is) is
answering "is the bootloader (or whatever) I'm getting the one I just
built and think I installed, or did something go wrong?". The
difference between ten minutes old and two weeks old is important; the
difference between two weeks old and six months old is not.
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