Re: System time

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On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 04:45:33 PM Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:38:21PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Without a battery backed RTC its really not that useful.  Picture 6 or 10
> > months after a release, does it matter if the time is half a year to a
> > year
> > off or 35 years off?
> 
> If a system needs to use something TLS-protected, then the system clock
> must not be too much off because a certificate might not be valid
> otherwise. At least in debian there is also a fake hwclock package that
> reduces the offset to the time that passed since the system was last
> booted:

Sure, but is there uses for TLS without the network having come up? at which 
point chronyd would have set the time correctly.

Dennis

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