Everyone should set it to 1970-01-01.
Ive been born since 1900-01-01 for a long time now.
The tech nerds should be setting theirs to 1970-01-01 at 00:00 UTC.
Why
That’s the Unix Epoch. The time and date in Linux and Unix is the number of seconds since then.
That’s the default time when the CMOS battery is dead and the RTC is reset.
It is the beginning of cataclysm-simulation_67
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 contents of the field will be protected from modification except by users with root privileges.
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.
An init system does not need to know my personal details; it’s for starting programs in a specific order just fuck off with this shit. You don’t even have to capitulate to this stuff and these freaks are out here doing it preemptively like they expect a fucking pat on the head for being first in line to dive tongue first on to that boot.
Systemd isn’t an init system. Systemd-init is an init system and it is a part of the systemd suite.
Whatever the fuck it is it doesn’t need to know how old I am to do its job.
It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.
But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.
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It doesn’t know how old are you, it just remembers a date you tell it. You can give your birthday, but you can choose any other day
It doesn’t need to know your age. It just provides a way to take a note of your birth date, only if you want to. The system already has a place to write your name and home address. All are optional and practically nobody uses them.
What service should handle it instead?
1930-01-01, done. But this shouldn’t be a requirement to begin with either.
I’m a Debian guy so I’ll set mine to April 28, 1973.
