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7 works even with system power off. Such clocks will normally not track
8 the local time zone or daylight savings time -- unless they dual boot
9 with MS-Windows -- but will instead be set to Coordinated Universal Time
12 The newest non-PC hardware tends to just count seconds, like the time(2)
13 system call reports, but RTCs also very commonly represent time using
16 Linux has two largely-compatible userspace RTC API families you may
20 so it's not very portable to non-x86 systems.
23 supported by a wide variety of RTC chips on all systems.
35 Old PC/AT-Compatible driver: /dev/rtc
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44 a few ways (enabling longer alarm periods, and wake-from-hibernate).
59 the type of interrupt (update-done, alarm-rang, or periodic) that was
61 the last read. Status information is reported through the pseudo-file
67 select(2) on /dev/rtc -- either will block/stop the user process until
75 typical 486-33 running a tight read loop on /dev/rtc will start to suffer
83 an evil user generating lots of IRQs on a slow 386sx-16, where it might have
85 a different value to /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq. Note that the
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111 Because Linux supports many non-ACPI and non-PC platforms, some of which
113 than expecting a single battery-backed MC146818 clone on every system.
122 * /proc/driver/rtc ... the system clock RTC may expose itself
123 using a procfs interface. If there is no RTC for the system clock,
127 The RTC Class framework supports a wide variety of RTCs, ranging from those
128 integrated into embeddable system-on-chip (SOC) processors to discrete chips
130 even support for PC-style RTCs ... including the features exposed on newer PCs
133 The new framework also removes the "one RTC per system" restriction. For
134 example, maybe the low-power battery-backed RTC is a discrete I2C chip, but
135 a high functionality RTC is integrated into the SOC. That system might read
136 the system clock from the discrete RTC, but use the integrated one for all