On 2018-01-10, Maximilian Pichler <[email protected]> wrote:
> * At boot the software clock (the value returned by gettimeofday) is
> initialized from the hardware clock (the one with the coin-shaped
> battery).
... from the RTC ("real-time clock"), yes.
> My question is: Can OpenBSD be told initialize the software from the
> hardware clock again after the system is booted?
No.
> (Also, is the hardware clock ever modified aside from explicit
> invocations of date(1) or similar?)
Yes,
* when the system is properly shut down, and
* periodically every 30 minutes, to prevent the RTC from drifting
off during long uptimes.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
