Necro -bump
With a little extra flavour
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/rtc.txt
and interestingly...
[root@kindle root]#
cat /proc/driver/rtc
Quote:
rtc_time : 18:34:40
rtc_date : 2013-03-20
alrm_time : 12:24:31
alrm_date : 2059-09-19
alarm_IRQ : no
alrm_pending : no
24hr : yes
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wonder when that changed...
EDIT: even more interestingly... 2059-09-19 12:24:31 is not a date that can even be calculated using the onboard busybox... nor ubuntu Mints
date calculator... it's too far in the future or something...
however using our trusty online companion...
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm
we can note that would be...
2831199871 - yeah. I can see how they came up with that one .... NOT... (some one's birthday? end of the world?)
Let's have a read of
https://www.linux.com/learn/docs/672...tc-alarm-clock
which looks like fun...