On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I think Chris is talking about the difference between the hardware
> (CMOS, BIOS) clock and Linux's own system clock.
>
> I believe the reason is because the Linux kernel was developed on 
> hardware
> that had inaccurate hardware clocks. The Linux kernel can keep time 
> better
> than the hardware clock itself.

Exactly right! Thanks Jeremy, my curiosity is satisfied.