Re: [MiNT] UTC documentation uploaded

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Guido Flohr wrote:

> Under Linux you need a special program hwclock to write back
> the system time to the CMOS clock.

Correct.

> FreeBSD seems to have a similar mechanism, although somewhat
> closer to the MiNT approach.  AFAIR the corresponding tool is
> called adjkerntz.

That, I cannot remember.

> What if we would do the same in MiNT? Simply don't even try
> to change the hardware clock but leave that task to external
> software.

Maybe.  I like the way things are currently done.  Please explain
the advantages or inconvenients of doing that?

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