* Alexander Hall wrote:

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>> True. A little addition for the archives (since it's been a while now):
>>
>> $ 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