Hi, In the apache tree, I see a file 'dist/DATE'.
It now contains '1042860403' ; perl -e 'print scalar gmtime 1042860403' says : Sat Jan 18 03:26:43 2003 It is now (perl -e 'print scalar gmtime') : Mon Jan 20 08:04:04 2003 If 'dist/DATE' was updated daily, it would be very easy to check the freshness/staleness of mirrors. Regards. Henk Penning Henk P. Penning, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University \__/ \ Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. \__/ Telephone: +31-30-2534106, fax: 2513791, NIC-handle: HPP1 _/ \__/ \ News.answers http://www.cs.uu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais \__/ \__/ \__/