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

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:56 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> On 13/02/2007, at 8.27, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >Finally -- and I have asked this before -- please give a concrete
> >motivating example where knowing the time of installation actually helps
> >some real application.
> 
> A protected historical record of image installation date helps in:
> 1. diagnostics, and statistics for large numbers of machines.
> 2. forensic analysis.

For both of these purposes, capturing the time of first boot is equally
good.