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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?
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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>