So what's the deal with the time/date stamps?

[2low4zero]

The time is now 10:40am CST, therefore 11:40am EST,  Wednesday, January 7, and I just upgraded to 1.2.2 which states, "built on Wed Jan 7 14:39:20 EST 2009".

While I spend a great deal of my life confused, temporal chaos is NOT, and I repeat NOT!, one of those things I'm interested in contemplating today.  So I'll just ask nicely, "Um, what's the deal with time / date stamps?"

Now, come to think of it, that spawns the question, "Okay, so… GIT, CVS, or Subversion?  Which source code control / revision control system do the developers use?"

I'll shut up now....