Date of a FreeBSD installation

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Ivan Voras on Friday, 14 January 2011:
> On 13/01/2011 21:28, David Demelier wrote:
> >Hello folks,
> >
> >I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date.
> >We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD
> >kernel is possible.
> 
> If you haven't removed it, a line in /etc/rc.conf should be written by 
> sysinstall at system install time:
> 
> # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Sep 14 16:13:22 2008
> 
> On a newer system (7+?), the timestamp of /etc/hostid would be from the 
> first boot.
> 
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/etc/hostid has the right date for me.

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