On 2018-01-10, Maximilian Pichler <maxim.pich...@gmail.com> wrote: > * At boot the software clock (the value returned by gettimeofday) is > initialized from the hardware clock (the one with the coin-shaped > battery).
... from the RTC ("real-time clock"), yes. > My question is: Can OpenBSD be told initialize the software from the > hardware clock again after the system is booted? No. > (Also, is the hardware clock ever modified aside from explicit > invocations of date(1) or similar?) Yes, * when the system is properly shut down, and * periodically every 30 minutes, to prevent the RTC from drifting off during long uptimes. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de