After you connected to the internet, and before you actually start making persistent changes to your system, you have to update your system clock to make sure it is accurate. In this episode, we discuss the interesting concepts behind timekeeping, and how it affects computers. Suggested reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/timedatectl.1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_time https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time #ArchLinux #UTC #Timezone