what you suggest sounds like a really bad idea Time is an imperfect construct, with your suggestion you have to have 100% confidence that system local time is always perfect. I've been doing this a long time and can recall many instances when an issue arose because time was off.
On July 6, 2024 7:01:27 AM MDT, Anon Loli <anonl...@autistici.org> wrote: SNIP >(my last email on this thread, about datetime "version check" is needed to >understand the meaning of this) >or make(1) can handle this when say building /usr/src, it can check datetime of >the source files (.c, .h), and then the datetime of object files (.o).. now >there might be a confusion between CVS repository datetime and local host >time, so perhaps convert everything to UTC unixtime, and perhaps CVS should >handle the differential between CVS and local datetime (if needed at all) > >And voila, that should handle object files so that they can't get outdated. >
