Oct. 26, 2016
4:28 a.m.
Guy Harris wrote:
did we *really* have to log in as root and type the "date" command after a reboot if we wanted the system's clock to be sufficiently close to reality?)
Yes. How quickly we forget! But here's a confirming source, which says, "After booting unix, the current date and time (date (1)) must be set": http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/dec/Jean_Huens_v7m/setup.tx...