Re: [RFC PATCH] hwclock: --offset: Use offset instead of writing clock

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> Are you sure that drift factor (re)calculation does not happen if
> writing the Hardware Clock fails? I just had a quick look at the
> code and it seem that we do not test to see if write fails. So
> (re)calculation might work as is?

It does not seem to work the obvious way:

> [root@localhost ~]# date
> Thu Oct  9 14:56:30 UTC 2014
> [root@localhost ~]# hwclock --systohc --update
> hwclock: ioctl(RTC_SET_TIME) to /dev/rtc to set the time failed.: Invalid argument
> [root@localhost ~]# hwclock --get
> Thu Jan  8 05:12:51 1970  .543449 seconds

I will try to look into it.
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