>Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 16:30:40 +1000
>From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@frodo.dn.itg.telecom.com.au>

>As an example, the following patch to /sys/conf/newvers.sh
>will append the content of /usr/src/sup.date to osrelease[] if it is a
>-current version.

This is a good idea.

>I seem to recall that someone modified sup to store dates in ascii?
>If so you could make src/sup.date -> somewhere/when.allsrc or
>something like that.  

The 'dates' recorded in the when.* files aren't dates, they're
gettimeofday(2)-style timestamps.

Use 'sup -t' if you want a printed date (as printed by ctime(3)).
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