Jonathan Wilson writes:
> Try including "RTC" in your searches. I belive that the RTC (real time
> clock) must be always referencing the timezone file, but I don't know
> more than that (I may be wrong, but I think it would have to, at least
> periodically).

No.  The RTC is normally set to UTC and "references" nothing.  The kernel
reads the RTC at boot, sets the system time, and ignores the RTC
thereafter.  System time is kept in a software counter by the kernel (in
seconds since 1969).
-- 
John Hasler


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