Quoting Andreas Messer ([email protected]): > This problem has no relation to the existence of a hardware RTC or not. > On Linux, the hardware RTC is in almost any case only read when the system > boots/resumes and updated on system shutdown/sleep. During operation, > Linux always uses a software RTC. (Otherwise system would be very slow, > since accessing a hardware RTC is time consuming operation) > > The point with RPi is, that it has no RTC and thus can not restore > current time on boot/resume. Thus in order to get the current time, > an RPi must use some kind of NTP protocol. (And needs connection to > a time server)
Thank you for clarifying that, Andreas. I really had no idea that conventional PC systems read the RTC only at boot time, or why -- but your explanation makes total sense. -- Cheers, "It's still magic even if you know how it's done." Rick Moen -- Terry Pratchett, _A Hat Full of Sky_ [email protected] McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
