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Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field (www.theregister.com)
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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Everyone should set it to 1970-01-01.

[–] mrbn@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Nah, I'm all about that 9001/01/01 life

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

In other news there has been a massive uptick in Boomers converting to Linux....

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ive been born since 1900-01-01 for a long time now.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Most people are born on the same date their whole life.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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!

[–] org@lemmy.org 7 points 1 day ago

0001-01-01

I’m old.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago

The brain stops developing at age 23.

No it doesn’t. The brain continues to develop and change throughout the lifetime of the organism.

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

happily updates its birthdate to 2018-01-01 you can't blame me now. Take that, woke people.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The tech nerds should be setting theirs to 1970-01-01 at 00:00 UTC.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago

That's the Unix Epoch. The time and date in Linux and Unix is the number of seconds since then.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the default time when the CMOS battery is dead and the RTC is reset.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It is the beginning of cataclysm-simulation_67

[–] LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

My go to is usually 1978-09-21