Yeah Nihil, I was thinking the same thing about portability... I'm going to open the RTC battery slot probably tomorrow and take a peek see what's up but I thought I'd provide some extra information I forgot and only occurred to me last night.

Since I'm usually using my laptop in the house, I removed the battery and it's running solely on AC power. At night, when the laptop gets shut down, I remove the AC plug because it emits an annoying light that won't let me sleep. I decided to experiment last night and left the AC connected, the time was fine this morning. I'm going to disconnect it tonight see if it produces the opposite effect.