I'm trying to set up something simple. I want chrony to grab NMEA time as soon
as it's available, and then sync to PPS. This system (BBB) has no
battery-backed RTC and no network access.
When the time is initially correct (set via NTP when connected to network),
chrony seems to work, and lock
Here's more information. As you both suggested, gpsd is feeding bad time to
chronyd.
Starting chrony with the -s option, it still sets the clock to 1999-08-22.
Presumably the drift file had the time set incorrectly in a previous run:
$ cat /var/lib/chrony/chrony.*
72.210307196.256213
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