[haiku-development] Re: Defining the Haiku UUID for GPT and other uses

  • From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:52:59 +0200

Hi André,

> This UUID has some nice properties, some delightfully easter-egg-ish:
>     -    The time field relates to the foundation of the OpenBeOS
> project (somethime in August 2001, but I couldn't pinpoint the exact
> day if it is at all known, so I just set it to the last day of the
> month);

18 August 2001 is considered the official OpenBeOS birth date.

Which should change a little bit the UUID, but without breaking the
easter-egg-ish level.
I don't have uuid tool here, so feel free to post the new,
birthdate-fixed Haiku UUID.

Bye,
  Philippe.

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