On a new D820, I've installed from the dapper drake desktop 6.06 iso, updated packages, including kernel to 2.6.15-25-686 and I set the default runlevel to 6 (reboot) and let it go for a couple of hours. Good news is that I didn't experience the time-of-day clock stopped" error. So it seems more likely that this problem has been fixed in these later kernels.
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