[JoachimSchipper]

From http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/27/22:

    By default, sudo displays a lecture when the user's time stamp
    file is not present.  In sudo 1.6, the -k option was changed
    to reset the time stamp file to the epoch rather than remove
    it to prevent the lecture from being displayed the next time
    sudo was run.  No special case was added for handling a time
    stamp file set to the epoch since the clock should never
    legitimately be set to that value.