Hardware & System Time & Synch'ing

Hi, I have my hardware and system time set to the local eastern usa time (no reason except that's how I got the server). I am also running ntpd to synch the system time to a few second tier public time servers (again not for any great reason). Anyhow, with summer time starting in the USA, now my hardware clock is an hour behind my systerm. Well, I can synch it to the system clock no problem. But it got me thinking... what's the significance of the hardware time in relation to the system? Does it matter that it is out? Just curious. Hardware & System Time & Synch'ing

 

 

 

 

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