hmm, on Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:42:39AM -0400, Nick Holland said that > On 09/06/13 04:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2013/09/05 20:03, Barry Grumbine wrote: > >> Non-VM use case: The BeagleBone Black has no RTC, so -j could be > >> useful for cheap little ARM development boards. > > > > -s is fine for that (and the same for those of the alix boards with > > no rtc battery, etc). > > > > ...unless the machine isn't attached to the network when initially > powered up. > > Same goes for any machine with a dead RTC battery that may not have a > good network connection at boot, and/or you don't want to slow the boot > down by 15 seconds if there is no network connection. This shocks > people, but I often use a computer where there is no network connection. > Waiting for that 15 second boot delay is annoying.
a quick and dirty solution could be rdate(8) in crontab(5) -f -- i am not a dictator. it's just i have a grumpy face.
