Bryan Kadzban wrote: > This is true (the system time coming from the BIOS) with hwclock. > That's what "hwclock --hctosys" reads from, after all. I do not believe > it's true without it; last I knew, without hwclock, the system would > start at time zero. (But it's been many years since I tried it.)
I think it depends on the BIOS. I have an old laptop where the BIOS battery died and the default time is, IIRC, somewhere around 1998. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
