[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/33] Add build date values to Makefile

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On 11 November 2014 22:22, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon,
>
> In message <1415751501-23407-2-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
>> At present there is a string for the build date and time. In the case of an
>> Real Time Clock which needs to be reset, it is useful to reset it to the
>> build date, since it can't be earlier than that.
>
> I can't see the fundamental difference between two wrong dates?  The
> build time of U-Boot is as wrong as any other time.

Well if you buy a product (car, TV, microwave, phone) it tends to use
a recent date when erased, rather than 1970. No fundamental
difference, but closer to reality.

Regards,
Simon