Since Time Machine will only saves hourly and daily backups for the short term, it would be nice to know the schedule of the backup it will ultimately save "permanently" (until the drive fills up) as the weekly backup.
It would be nice if you could choose the "back up now" option and then earmark it to be kept as a point of possible return (rather than have it be deleted as just another run of the mill hourly save after a month's time.). But short of that, if there was someway of knowing which backup is going to be kept as a weekly, just before that backup, I could have my machine set up the way I would like to return to in the future (saving steps of installing or uninstalling software, configuring software, etc.)
It would be nice if you could choose the "back up now" option and then earmark it to be kept as a point of possible return (rather than have it be deleted as just another run of the mill hourly save after a month's time.). But short of that, if there was someway of knowing which backup is going to be kept as a weekly, just before that backup, I could have my machine set up the way I would like to return to in the future (saving steps of installing or uninstalling software, configuring software, etc.)