[recovery mode] Леонард Поттеринг из RedHat спасает все человечество

Наткнулся тут на странную новую фичу в changelog-е systemd:

        * On boot-up, when PID 1 detects that the system clock is behind the
          release date of the systemd version in use, the clock is now set
          to the latter. Previously, this was already done in timesyncd, in order
          to avoid running with clocks set to the various clock epochs such as
          1902, 1938 or 1970. With this change the logic is now done in PID 1
          in addition to timesyncd during early boot-up, so that it is enforced
          before the first process is spawned by systemd. Note that the logic
          in timesyncd remains, as it is more comprehensive and ensures
          montonic clocks by maintaining a persistant timestamp file in
          /var. Since /var is generally not available in earliest boot or the
          initrd, this part of the logic remains in timesyncd, and is not done
          by PID 1.

То есть systemd теперь при загрузке меняет время системы, если оно было установлено на более раннее, чем время релиза самого systemd. Казалось бы — наглая попытка Поттеринга навязать свои собственные понятия о том как linux должен вести себя? Но давайте подумаем…

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