On Tue, 10 Oct 2023, Brian Buhrow wrote:
Does it always drift backward? And, it looks like it drifted by one second. Does it ever drift by more than one second?
kern.boottime can go forwards too and by quite a bit. Go into the BIOS setup, then set the time back by 1 min. Boot into NetBSD and run ntpdate. kern.boottime should now jump forwards by a minute. I think what David's looking for is something akin to Linux's /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id something which only changes on every boot but is otherwise stable. -RVP
