sys-apps/openrc-0.2-r1 apparently renamed /etc/{init.d,conf.d,/runlevel/boot}clock to *hwclock. However, clock is still used by some init-scripts e.g. atd, dcron, or metalog. Moreover, openrc itself has "after clock" in bootmisc and fsck dependencies.
the hwclock init.d script has "provide" clock
> the hwclock init.d script has "provide" clock Then perhaps something else is strange: I ran into the problem because I read a message like "...atd depends on nonexisting service clock...". But perhaps this happened only at the first boot - I cannot reproduce it anymore.