This is useful on computers that have an RTC, but there is no battery to
keep the time when they are turned off and start with the same time on
each boot.
This is a verbatim copy of the files at that stage of the repository that was
built from the CVS import. It allows future development to see a bit of recent
history, but without carrying around the baggage going back to 1997. If that
is really required, git grafts can be used.
