Once upon a time, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> said:
> b. A default installation of Fedora 18/19, has no means of updating the RTC 
> correctly if it's off by more than 15 minutes; and 60 minutes with newer 
> kernels. An RTC wrong by more than an hour, e.g. two months ago, if I have an 
> internet connection chrony sets the system clock to the correct date/time. If 
> I don't have an internet connection, I'm relegated to a system time based on 
> the wrong RTC, which seems grossly broken to me. 

Well, if your clock is wrong, and you don't have an Internet connection,
what else can be done?  I don't understand your complaint here.

> c. Windows and OS X do not behave this way - almost immediately upon getting 
> correct time from an internet source, those OS's update the RTC to the 
> correct time.

Do they do that in a secure fashion?  Jumping the clock also has
consequences.
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Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net>
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