[ts-7000] rtc7800 vs. hwclock

["Dan" <>]

I've got a ts7800 board with the RTC option.  Both hwclock and rtc7800
exist on my installation seem to work correctly as far as I can tell.  

- What is the difference between the two?  From what I gather hwclock
is part of a standard linux distribution that uses an rtc driver to
access the clock and rtc7800 just goes to the clock directly.

- Why would I want to use one vs. the other?

- If I need to get the date/time in one of my programs, why do I want
to use the system time instead of the hardware clock time?

Thanks,
Dan



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