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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?
Date: 2 Oct 2024 04:49:27 GMT
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:07:23 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
<vdigth$33m1a$1@dont-email.me>:

> 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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