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Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.



Jeffrey Cao:
> On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> 
>> A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem:
>> 
>> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1  | grep created
>> Filesystem created:       Mon Jul  6 09:01:20 2009
>> 
>> (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the
>> morning? Must have been on vacation.)
>> 
> It sounds good, but when I run this command on my notebook, it says:
> Filesystem created:       Thu Feb 19 05:38:52 2009
> I can't believe it's 5:38 in the morning when I installed my system.

I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know
about yours.

J.
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