[gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Grant wrote:
>>> One of my systems needed Real Time Clock -> PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in
>>> the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make
>>> the 'hwclock' command work.  Another of my systems doesn't have Real
>>> Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works
>>> fine.  Does anyone know how that works?
>> It might have something to do with the "High Resolution Timer Support"
>> option (in "Processor type and features".)  Not sure though.
>
> Thank you but none of my systems seem to have that enabled.

One thing I would try is examining the output of dmesg.  Maybe something 
  relevant shows up.