Re: kern.boottime drift after boot?

[Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c%exoticsilicon.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 12:42:48PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> I have a system which records the output of "sysctl -n kern.boottime"
> as part of a dhcpcd-exit.hook to ensure some processing only occurs
> once per boot.
> 
> Except... it doesn't quite work as the value appears to not be
> constant for a given boot.

It's adjusted in step with the system clock, see settime1() in kern_time.c.