[tz] [PATCH] Introduce Epoch offset and local time Epoch

[Guy Harris]

On Oct 26, 2016, at 6:17 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

> I'm too young to know how things were on the ground for Unix systems,
> but, PDP-11 Unix boots into a root prompt on the console and you have to
> Ctrl-D out of the shell to continue to go on to multi-user mode, and V7
> boot(8) mentions "doing any filesystem checks and setting the date" as
> the purpose.

Speaking of behaviors from so long ago that I no longer remember them....