Comments on: Date and Time on UNIX V7 https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/28/date-and-time-on-unix-v7/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 05 May 2023 08:38:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/28/date-and-time-on-unix-v7/comment-page-1/#comment-329782 Fri, 05 May 2023 08:38:30 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8085#comment-329782 In reply to Michael Katzmann.

fixed!

]]> By: Sebastian https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/28/date-and-time-on-unix-v7/comment-page-1/#comment-329759 Fri, 05 May 2023 01:00:07 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8085#comment-329759 In reply to Michael Katzmann.

Please?

]]> By: Michael Katzmann https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/28/date-and-time-on-unix-v7/comment-page-1/#comment-317403 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 04:29:38 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8085#comment-317403 The links to the program files are broken. Can you restore them?

]]> By: xorhash https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/28/date-and-time-on-unix-v7/comment-page-1/#comment-191343 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:05:17 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8085#comment-191343 In reply to DOS.

Pretty much, yes. Plus even small amounts of storage aren’t exactly free, especially back in those days. It only makes sense that remembering the current time was foregone.

]]> By: DOS https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/28/date-and-time-on-unix-v7/comment-page-1/#comment-191323 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 04:33:35 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=8085#comment-191323 I skipped over that part of the startup process because I never even thought about it 🙂 Now that I think of it, I presume that in those days those sorts of machines weren’t switched off very often, so they wouldn’t have had much demand for a battery-backed real-time clock?

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