How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-29 Thread Mike Iowa
I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out the following information from Debian systems. 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based system and tell when the operating system

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:14:30 -0500 (EST), Mike Iowa wrote: > I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out the > following information from Debian systems. > > 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. > 2. I would also like to be able to look at (

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:14:30 -0600, Mike Iowa wrote: > I have done extensive searches and have found no answers for finding out > the following information from Debian systems. > > 1. I would like to be able to tell when a package was installed. Far from perfect, but you can get some info under

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike Iowa: > > 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based > system and tell when the operating system was originally installed. A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created Filesystem created: Mon J

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > --YzdYn+D7cUqe+VA3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Mike Iowa: >>=20 >> 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based >> system and tell whe

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeffrey Cao: > On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem: >> >> $ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep created >> Filesystem created: Mon Jul 6 09:01:20 2009 >> >> (Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:30 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: > I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know > about yours. Maybe it's not an hour off. Have you taken Daylight Saving Time into account? For example, the US Eastern Time zone is five hours behind GMT in th

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stephen Powell: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:30 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I guess the time is in UTC. (Only 1 hour off in my case, I don't know >> about yours. > > Maybe it's not an hour off. Sorry, english is not my first language. What I meant was that when my root partition was fo

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-01-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:37:14 -0500 (EST), Jochen Schulz wrote: > Sorry, english is not my first language. What I meant was that when my > root partition was formatted, my local time only differed from UTC by > one hour. Oh. What I thought you meant was "If I assume that the time value reported on

Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.

2010-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2010-01-31, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > --3gk1bTGVZuaU9V5/ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Jeffrey Cao: >> On 2010-01-30, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>=20 >>> A good hint might be the creation date of your root