On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > qu...@laptop.org said: >> "date" followed by a successful normal shutdown should work, because a >> normal shutdown runs hwclock ... but "hwclock --systohc" is handy in case >> you aren't sure that a normal shutdown will happen next. > > It used to do that on shutdown as part of /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and friends, > but I think it got dropped as part of the switch to systemd. >grep hwclock > /etc -r< doesn't find anything. > > Does anybody know if it moved to someplace I haven't looked yet and/or if it > was deliberately dropped or just fell through the cracks?
You are correct, the switch to systemd means we no longer sync from system clock to hw clock. I spotted that early, and documented it in the release notes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/12.1.0#Base_system I also pestered upstream (systemd) to fix ntpdate and friends. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-April/005023.html and https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11483 hth, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
