What is rtc?

I see a module called rtc loaded every time the system boots. It's getting loaded by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rtc.sh and it requires linux.ko. I'm just curious as to what it is and if I really need it.

Thanks! :)

J.
 
emulators/rtc Kernel module which provides /dev/rtc device support

This is a kernel module for /dev/rtc device support.
Some apps such as VMware for Linux would be happy with it.

Maybe?
 
It's generally pulled in by mplayer:
% make -C /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer showconfig |grep -i rtc=
RTC=off "Add support for kernel real time clock timing"
 
Thanks for that. Interestingly, I don't currently have mplayer installed. I was going to install it though

J.
 
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