On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:38:21PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> Without a battery backed RTC its really not that useful.  Picture 6 or 10 
> months after a release, does it matter if the time is half a year to a year 
> off or 35 years off? 

If a system needs to use something TLS-protected, then the system clock
must not be too much off because a certificate might not be valid
otherwise. At least in debian there is also a fake hwclock package that
reduces the offset to the time that passed since the system was last
booted:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/fake-hwclock

Regards
Till
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