On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/01/2015 12:14 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> How is system time set?  Is ntpdate run after the network is ready? How
>>> long
>>> does it retry waiting for the network to be available?
>>>
>>> I have seen a number of challenges becuase the system time is bac at the
>>> epoch start as there is no battery rtc.  And  I wonder how many armv7
>>> boards
>>> have a battery to maintain time across boots?
>>>
>>> Minimally, a process could right the time, in the proper format, to a
>>> file,
>>> say /etc/currenttime every 5 min and at shutdown.
>>>
>>> Then date can be run early in the boot process, piping this file in.  It
>>> would not be perfect and does not help, much for new installs, but better
>>> than epoch start.
>>>
>>> Plus /etc/currenttime can be at least set to the image build date/time so
>>> not even firstboot will be at epoch start.
>>
>> systemd v215+ has a nice feature to take care of this:
>>
>> systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service
>
>
> What rpm provides this?  I am not finding it...
>

Should be a default part of systemd..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/
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