James G. Sack (jim) wrote:

After the system clock is initialized (eg, on boot), the hardware clock
has little to do with ongoing time operations.

I don't believe that's true.

Using the kernel counters for timekeeping is pretty inaccurate (lots of interrupts can stall the kernel counters).

I believe that most things actually query the hardware clock when asked for time of day.

-a


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