Date: 2023mar28 OS: Linux Q. `systemctl status` says "Tainted: local-hwclock" A. This is simply because: The hardware clock is running in non-UTC mode (taint flag 'local-hwclock') Its too bad because I like running in local time. Source https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/README That page says: Taint conditions are logged during boot, but may also be checked at any time with:

busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager Tainted

As root, you can do:

hwclock -v

To see the hardware clock's settings