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Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 00:44:21 -0000
From: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
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To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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        Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux updates RTC secretly when clock synchronizes
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--On Wednesday, 07 November, 2001 12:00 AM +0000 Riley Williams 
<rhw@MemAlpha.cx> wrote:

>  2. The kernel makes no internal reference to the /dev/rtc driver,
>     and it is left to userland tools to sync to the RTC on boot,
>     and at other times as required.

I think the kernel should set the machine time to the RTC time
as an initializer on boot. Other than that, I agree.

--
Alex Bligh
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