* Alexander Hall wrote:
[...]
>> True. A little addition for the archives (since it's been a while now):

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>>

>> $ date -r 86908

>> Fri Jan  2 01:08:28 CET 1970

>

> Oops. My bad. A better approach (combined with correct reading):

>

> $ date -ur 0

> Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 UTC 1970

> $ date -ur 86908

> Fri Jan  2 00:08:28 UTC 1970

>

> So that would mean a little more than _one_day_ and eight minutes... No

> wonder it would take a few months (I was surprised and not at all convinced

> by my calculations). :-)

Remember that the ALIX.2/3 boards usually do not have a battery

to backup a realtime clock.  Their clocks always start at 0 when

powered up, and 0 is the epoch, Jan. 1 1970.  A mechanism like

ntpd -s is needed for those boards.
The ALIX.1B/C do have a battery, btw.
- Marc Balmer