Juergen wrote: > Harlan wrote: > > There is no corrected version of the real-time clock before the PC goes > > online. > > I'd suggest to read chrony's manual. Chrony stores the reference values > collected while running online for further use after reboot, even if we > have no online connection at that point.
I'm pretty familiar with ntp in particular and computer timekeeping in general. I've also seen a fair number of situations where the hardware clock is "just wrong", especially after a reboot. In my world, it's about getting things to work right in as many cases as possible. > Of course, this doesn't work if you never have synced with an NTP > server. And more often than one might think, if one has just rebooted a machine. H