Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:07:23 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 10/1/2024 10:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 1 Oct 2024 18:31:48 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:26:51 -0400, Joel wrote:
>

Why is something other than the hardware clock determining the system
time, on either OS?

>
Because hardware clocks are seldom accurate?

 
Linux has its own system clock which is run off timer interrupts. This
is initialized from the hardware clock at boot time, and its value is
saved back to the hardware clock at shutdown. The rest of the time, the
kernel doesn’t care about the hardware clock.
 
<https://manpages.debian.org/8/hwclock.8.en.html>

 
 
"It can ... set the Hardware Clock from the System Clock; set the System
Clock from the Hardware Clock..."
 
So reassuring...

And the System Clock is set by...

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/openntpd/ntpd.8.en.html

 
 
MS is doomed.

MS uses ntpd time servers to sync Windows clocks, last I looked.

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