Dec. 29, 2018
5:08 p.m.
On December 29, 2018 7:27:48 PM EST, Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> wrote:
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
I also have a number of files dated 1980-01-01 with a range of times, but I'm a bit more suspicious about them. Though since they are Infocom games they might be genuine.
I have a number of files dated 1980-01-01 (copied from 5 1/4 floppies),
but those that I have been able to verify are really newer.
1980-01-01 is the (PC|MS)-DOS epoch. Early PCs did not have a battery backed clock, and so every boot would require manually setting the clock -- and many people did not bother to do so, hence timestamps of that date are not to be trusted. -GAWollman