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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...


MS is doomed.