use current time to synthesize zone version in the SOA record

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@@ -120,13 +120,10 @@ recursive resolution of the subdomain tree is enforced for when
 SOA record is requested. That would invalidate the reason to have
 caching in the first place.
 
 SOA record is requested. That would invalidate the reason to have
 caching in the first place.
 

-One possible workaround would be to use some derivative of absolute
-time, such as the number of hours elapsed since the epoch, for the
-SOA generation count.
-
-At the time of this writing, `pdns-pipe-nmc` simply reports zero as
-the SOA generation count. This leads to stale results until `pdnsd`
-is restarted.
+One possible workaround, currently implemented in `pdns-pipe-nmc`, is to
+use a derivative of absolute time, in our case the number of 10-munute
+intervals elapsed since Namecoin was concieved, as the SOA generation
+count.

 
 ## Getting the Software
 
 
 ## Getting the Software