Everyone should set it to 1970-01-01.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Ive been born since 1900-01-01 for a long time now.
Me too!
Although someone (steam maybe? I don't remember) updated their system and won't take it anymore. So now it's 1930-01-01.
You should try it. It's like I'm 30 years younger!
0001-01-01
I’m old.
Born just in time to not be able to be a nazi!
Yes, I know the Hitler Youth existed....but I don't hold that against those (at the time) children. They were being conditioned to support a system they didn't understand.
I figure anyone younger than 20 is too young to be blamed for all that crap. The brain stops developing at age 23. So I don't expect an 8 year old to hold a very good grasp on international politics and wars. Especially in an age where an hour nightly AM radio broadcast, and a daily morning newspaper were your only source for news.
The tech nerds should be setting theirs to 1970-01-01 at 00:00 UTC.
Why
It is the beginning of cataclysm-simulation_67
That's the default time when the CMOS battery is dead and the RTC is reset.
That's the Unix Epoch. The time and date in Linux and Unix is the number of seconds since then.
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sudo my age to a thousand years then; no, thank you very very much
No thanks, not the distro I will be using.
Systemd isn't a distro, it's an init and bootstrapper that underlies several distros
they easily might have meant that the distro they will be using has declared they will not implement this
That was very, very likely what the parent comment meant. The correction was unnecessary.
If the hyperventilators could read that would be a very good point.