* Alexander Hall wrote: [...]
>> True. A little addition for the archives (since it's been a while now): >> >> $ date -r 86908 >> Fri Jan 2 01:08:28 CET 1970 > > Oops. My bad. A better approach (combined with correct reading): > > $ date -ur 0 > Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 1970 > $ date -ur 86908 > Fri Jan 2 00:08:28 UTC 1970 > > So that would mean a little more than _one_day_ and eight minutes... No > wonder it would take a few months (I was surprised and not at all convinced > by my calculations). :-) Remember that the ALIX.2/3 boards usually do not have a battery to backup a realtime clock. Their clocks always start at 0 when powered up, and 0 is the epoch, Jan. 1 1970. A mechanism like ntpd -s is needed for those boards. The ALIX.1B/C do have a battery, btw. - Marc Balmer
