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Oh it's skippable all right. Just pull the cmos battery and wait a few seconds before putting it back in.

• londons_explore 1y ago
  There's gonna be a bunch of linux users who write a shutdown script to set the date back to 2015 then poweroff... And at startup, reset the date back to today using the internet. Sounds like a cleaner solution than any of the ones in the article too!
  • Tuna-Fish 1y ago
    That's risky, an unclean shutdown would require resetting the clock which is a bother. It's much more likely that someone will write a driver that adds an offset to the clock, keeping the hw date in a safe range.
    • homebrewer 1y ago
      You can simply avoid adjusting the hardware clock. The kernel clock is not tied to it and can be modified separately. chrony can do that, for example. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chrony#Real-Time_Clock https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chrony#Real-Time_Clock
• andrewmcwatters 1y ago
  Infosec engineers hate this one trick!