prtc(4)

prtc4

Prom real-time clock

Usage

prtc0 at mainbus0

Overview

The prtc driver provides support for the time of day service provided by the PROM on systems that do not have a hardware real-time clock like the Sun Enterprise 10000, Sun Fire 12K and Sun Fire 15K.

History

The prtc driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.4.

Authors

The prtc driver was written by Mark Kettenis ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.