I think there is no good reason why settimeofday *should* update the
RTC. This is not desired in all cases and changing an existing system
call might cause problems with software expecting the old semantics.
> One possible reason is if different OSes have a different idea of what
> the "epoch" is (as is the case on the Alpha, for example), but this is
> not an issue in the particular case I'm interested in, so I'm
> wondering if there are any other reasons. Fundamentally, I think it's
> needlessly confusing for a user to have to remember to update the
> hardware clock separately.
If this functionality is really needed, it seems to me that it would
be a cleaner (and easy to implement) solution to put it in the user
level program used to change the date, not in the kernel.
Eilert
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