Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law.

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043510.html

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

Here is how they can make it user friendly for those who lives outside those states:

cat /etc/age-verification.conf
#Enabled=On|True|1
#Enabled=Off|False|0

This needs to be configured at first boot or install time. Please note that the nature of opensource makes it next to impossible to do something like this.

@nixCraft
For anyone forced to do it, we should all put in January 1, 1970.
https://www.utctimestamp.com/story/unix-epoch.html
Why Computer Time Started on January 1, 1970 - UTC Timestamp

The story behind Unix time and the 'epoch' that powers the internet.