On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How is system time set? Is ntpdate run after the network is ready? How long > does it retry waiting for the network to be available? > > I have seen a number of challenges becuase the system time is bac at the > epoch start as there is no battery rtc. And I wonder how many armv7 boards > have a battery to maintain time across boots? > > Minimally, a process could right the time, in the proper format, to a file, > say /etc/currenttime every 5 min and at shutdown. > > Then date can be run early in the boot process, piping this file in. It > would not be perfect and does not help, much for new installs, but better > than epoch start. > > Plus /etc/currenttime can be at least set to the image build date/time so > not even firstboot will be at epoch start. systemd v215+ has a nice feature to take care of this: systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
