While chronyd is running with the rtcfile directive, timedatectl shows $ timedatectl Local time: Fri 2024-08-09 14:12:01 UTC Universal time: Fri 2024-08-09 14:12:01 UTC RTC time: n/a Time zone: Universal (UTC, +0000) System clock synchronized: yes NTP service: active RTC in local TZ: no
When using chronyc's rtcdata command, you get RTC ref time (GMT) : Sat May 30 07:25:56 2015 Number of samples : 10 Number of runs : 5 Sample span period : 549 RTC is fast by : -1.632736 seconds RTC gains time at : -107.623 ppm where RTC ref time (GMT) This is the RTC reading the last time its error was measured. so this is not the current RTC value either. How to read it out then without having to stop chronyd?