There are two clocks in your computer: a system clock and a
hardware
clock. The system clock is maintained by the running operating
system (Debian). It is also said to be maintained by the kernel. The
date command talks to the system clock. The hardware
clock is part of the actual hardware of the computer and is usually
battery backed up. The hwclock command talks to the
hardware clock.
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