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Cc: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Subject: Re: Inspired by "Two years ago today..."
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David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 01:21:07PM -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>
>>>> This must be fake, 2642 days ago it was Fri Jul 13, 2001 :-)
>>> Indeed:
>>>
>>> g1-60(6.4-P)[1] sh
>>> $ date -r $((`date "+%s"` - 2642 \* 24 \* 60 \* 60 ))
>>> Fri Jul 13 09:14:10 PDT 2001
>>> $
>> Doesn't this mean that he installed his FreeBSD 4.1 on Dec 13, 2000,
>> ran it for 6 months, but shut down, but then started up on Jul 13,
>> 2001 and ran it ever since?
> 
> It doesn't say anything about when it was installed. It says the kernel
> was built on December 13, which is newer than the kernel from the
> install CD.

Granted.  You are correct.

Yet it is a safe assumption that one generally installs a kernel shortly 
after it is built.  Built/Installed.  I'll accept that both are pretty 
much the same date in this case.