Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > 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.
You could well be right. It also may have changed over the years. I know that time-of-day is still showing up a lot in kernel changelogs. I wonder if I can find a short summary of how it is done in Linux? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
