801929 - add utility to get buildID as seconds since epoch

Status: NEW

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

Currently code can access the buildID (either through nsIXULAppInfo or GRE_BUILDID). This generally identifies when the code was built (although it certainly doesn't have to - I think this is just by convention right now). However, it's not stored in a format that's very useful for doing calculations based on when the code was built and what time it is now. It would be useful to be able to get this value as a time/date value (see bug 800444 for example).

Comment 1

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

Actually, we figured out a better way of handing this for the HSTS preload list, so we don't need this right now. It still might be useful in the future, though, so I'll just leave this open.