On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:38:10 +0800 Po Lu <luang...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Natanael Copa <natanael.c...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 2) Even if it does exist, there is no guarantee that the timestamp is > > correct. There are machines without RTC (Raspberry PI for example), > > and in this case the time stamp may end up to be the same every reboot > > (if correctly set up it should save the shutdown time for the reboot > > and set time to this on next boot, but there is no guarantee). > > If so, doesn't that discount the possibility of deriving the boot time > from the timestamp of any particular file? Since AFAIU these machines > lacking a TOY clock are relatively widespread?
That was sort of my point. It is better to avoid if possible. In emacs case I believe it is. -nc
