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

[Jeffrey Cao <jcao.linux@gmail.com>]

On 2010-01-31, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
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> Jeffrey Cao:
>> On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
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>>> A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem:
>>>=20
>>> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1  | grep created
>>> Filesystem created:       Mon Jul  6 09:01:20 2009
>>>=20
>>> (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the
>>> morning? Must have been on vacation.)
>>>=20
>> 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.
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> I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know
> about yours.
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That makes sense. My time zone is +8, so it's 13:38. That's right.

Jeffrey