[TUHS] Date madness

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Dec 14 13:13:17 AEST 2017


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>    > into the simulated computer's time of day clock.
>>
>> What Time of Day clock? We're talking PDP-11's here! :-)
>>
>
> On V6 at least, the time was set from the mod time (?) in inode #1, as I
> vaguely recall, so it was "pretty close".  My memory is *really* dim
> here...  Or was that one of the zillions of custom mods at the time?.


BSD falls back to this method if no TOD source is registered to get a time
to set.

Warner
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