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@@ -118,9 +118,18 @@ It consists of:
[At start, exactly once.]
- The Unix Epoch time in seconds when the file was created.
- It does not follow the KeyValue format for backwards
- compatibility with version 1.0.0.
+ The Unix Epoch time in seconds of the most recent generator result.
+
+ If there are multiple generators which can fail independently,
+ implementations SHOULD take the most recent timestamp from each
+ generator and use the oldest value. This ensures all the generators
+ continue running.
+
+ If there are scanners that do not run continuously, they SHOULD be
+ excluded from the timestamp calculation.
+
+ It does not follow the KeyValue format for backwards compatibility
+ with version 1.0.0.
"version=" version_number NL