opscode-cookbooks/motd-tail — pull request #5 by jtimberman (2014-03-13 23:54:33+00:00)
Title: [COOK-4434] writing a timestamp: not convergent

Every time Chef runs, it will update the template. This is totally idempotent, however it is not convergent. In a world where report handlers will track the number of resources updated in a Chef run, and potentially the timestamp of that run (depending on implmentation), having the last run's time stamp in the motd is less useful.