more on hardware clock

[Kerry Hoath]

Ok; we have managed to determine that clock under Linux
fails; can you set the clock from a dos boot disk
and does it stay set?
I have  never seen hwclock fail in all the 9 years
I have been running Linux. It was just called clock back then.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:34:38AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> When I do "strace hwclock --systohc" I get a continuous output of
> trace messages that have to be interrupted eventually with
> control-C. I have no idea what they mean, except the fact that
> they continuous means that the clock utility is not hanging, it
> is looping.
> 
> I give up!! Back to the abacus!
> 
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