On Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 15:23:19 CET Freek de Kruijf wrote: > In Raspbian I noticed a packet always included in the image called fake- > hwclock. I used the tar.gz file together with a .spec file to generate this > packet for openSUSE distributions for systems without a Real Time Clock. > > The description is: > Some machines don't have a working realtime clock (RTC) unit, or no driver > for the hardware that does exist. > fake-hwclock is a simple set of scripts to save the kernel's current clock > periodically (including at shutdown) and restore it at boot so that the > system clock keeps at least close to realtime. This will stop some of the > problems that may be caused by a system believing it has travelled in time > back to 1970, such as needing to perform file system checks at every boot. > > On top of this, use of NTP is still recommended to deal with the fake clock > "drifting" while the hardware is halted or rebooting. > > Hope this is accepted to be included.
Does this offer anything beyond what systemd-timesyncd offers? Kind regards, Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
