I seem to have gotten my RTC in a corrupted state and I am unsure of how to recover it.
This is the error thrown every time I try and read from hwclock.
hwclock: The Hardware Clock registers contain values that are either invalid (e.g. 50th day of month) or beyond the range we can handle (e.g. Year 2095).
I was following the advice from this thread.
I got my Pi to recognize the RTC and it worked, but after one reboot it seems to be in a corrupted state.