> > > > Just before burning your CD you can put a .txt file with the date, latest news > > > > headlines, and current weather in your location if you so wish. > > > > > > > > You can also label the CD or sharpie the date on it. > > > > > > Or you can just use a tape archive like any sane person would do. > > > > I know precisely 0 people with tape archives... > > > > I knew 1 back in the 90s.. > > > > It's not really what people do, at all. > > > > Again, you seem to be falling into that 'advanced user, so everything is simple' > > trap. There's no way I'd ever even consider buying a tape backup system, I wouldn't > > even know where to start with research. You're not going to just walk into a high > > street store and buy a tape backup solution. > > I'm talking about a file format that's used by literally every Linux and BSD > distribution. > > But you don't even need to use tars. A zip file will save timestamps.
Ok, I thought you meant ACTUAL tapes, which again is what most people would think reading what you put. If you'd said 'Tar files' it would have made more immediate sense to me, but still, to 99% of the population that would still have no meaning at all.
I don't see the point in arguing this with you, because it will just end up mirroring my experience every time I've tried to use Linux, an expectation that everybody already knows everything and will jump through any hoop to do anything.
I'd really rather that level of thinking didn't infect this project, which just about sums up this entire thread and my reasons for posting in it...