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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Timekeeping in Linux question ... Post 302512813 by methyl on Monday 11th of April 2011 04:36:50 PM
Old 04-11-2011
Further to pludi who has already answered the question.

The Real Time Clock in a computer can be implemented in many ways. This link and the links off the link are good background reading.
Real-time clock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In my experience the most serious clock faults have been caused by a flat CMOS battery! Starting a unix, Linux or Windows system with the clock wrong can have unexpected consequences (e.g. software licences expiry). All these systems rely on the hardware clock.
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setclock(3C)															      setclock(3C)

NAME
setclock - set value of system-wide clock SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The function sets the current value of the specified system-wide clock, supports a of defined in which represents the time-of-day clock for the system. For this clock, the values returned by represent the amount of time since the Epoch. The calling process must have appropriate privileges to set the clock. RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, returns a value of zero; otherwise it returns -1 and sets to indicate the error. ERRORS
fails if any of the following conditions are encountered: [EINVAL] does not specify a known system-wide clock, or either is outside the range for a given clock type, or it specifies a nanosecond value less than zero or greater than or equal to 1000 million. [EIO] An error occurred while accessing the clock device. [EPERM] The requesting process does not have the required appropriate privileges to set the specified clock. FILES
SEE ALSO
clocks(2), getclock(3C), gettimer(3C), thread_safety(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
setclock(3C)
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