Heres how it works. There is a hardware timer that keeps the time on the board, when the empeg starts up, it reads the time and uses it to start its own clock. The jiffies bug stops the linux (non hardware) clock for 20 mins. The hardware clock is never changed and the empeg resets to the right time after a reboot. Looks like Mark is reading the boards today, he can clarify with the correct technical terms.