[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 01:50 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> On 12/02/2007, at 4.58, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> >
> >Where such a distinction can be important, the data is probably already
> >managed somewhere, like in some corporate ERP, and information could be
> >set there.
> 
> Pierre:
> 
> It is not so difficult to do that in the installation tool. Why should we
> rely on an external environment setup when it can be done inside the
> installation tool ?

Valerio:

It is EXTREMELY difficult to do that in the installation tool. Please
explain how to record installation time on hardware that does not have
any time of day clock. Please explain how to make this record
*meaningful* when there is no counter that runs during system powerdown
and no way to re-synchronize the clock.

Finally -- and I have asked this before -- please give a concrete
motivating example where knowing the time of installation actually helps
some real application.

shap
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