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diff --git a/man4/rtc.4 b/man4/rtc.4 index 02e9f5f2f0..88b954e60d 100644 --- a/man4/rtc.4 +++ b/man4/rtc.4 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ and .BR time (2), as well as setting timestamps on files, etc. The system clock reports seconds and microseconds since a start point, -defined to be the POSIX Epoch: Jan 1, 1970, 0:00 UTC. +defined to be the POSIX Epoch: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). (One common implementation counts timer interrupts, once per "jiffy", at a frequency of 100, 250, or 1000 Hz.) That is, it is supposed to report wall clock time, which RTCs also do. |