On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 09/01/2015 12:14 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> >> 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 > > > What rpm provides this? I am not finding it... > Should be a default part of systemd.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
