SunOS Thinks It’s 2023

SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!" sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023. Copyright (c) 1983-1993, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. WARNING: NVRAM checksum error Ethernet address 8:0:20:2f:22:3 Warning: preposterous time in file system -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! What would you like to do? 1 - install SunOS mini-root 2 - exit to single user shell Enter a 1 or 2:

A social media post jokes that the ancient SunOS 4.1.4 operating system rejects the year 2023 as an impossibly absurd date and asks the user to reset the system clock. The punchline is the anachronistic comparison between an obsolete computer system and the supposedly impossible modern year, making it useful as a reaction to a chaotic or unbelievable date. EN: A social media post jokes that the ancient SunOS 4.1.4 operating system rejects the year 2023 as an impossibly absurd date and asks the user to reset the system clock. The punchline is the anachronistic comparison between an obsolete computer system and the supposedly impossible modern year, making it useful as a reaction to a chaotic or unbelievable date.

• @gentoomemes / 5645 2023-08-04