5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
15:50
On 2017-01-05 16:24, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
After all, the time function has to be able to do time counting calculations taking into account all the historic variations of the clock.
I'm not sure it does. If you run a system without ntpd, and instead relying only on the RTC, you'll end up with a clock way out of touch with reality, that's all :-)
See "info date", it mentions leap second handling. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)