alternative approach to waiting for system time to be set

[pab@xxxxxxxxxxx (Peter A. Bigot)]

On 03/19/2018 04:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On So, 18.03.18 20:45, Peter A. Bigot (pab at pabigot.com) wrote:
>
>> Like others I'd like to use systemd to defer starting a service until the
>> system time has been set accurately.  Previous approaches to resolving issue
>> #5097 don't seem to be going anywhere.
>>
>> https://github.com/pabigot/timesyncwait has my proposed solution: a
>> standalone service that blocks until adjtimex(2) confirms that something has
>> told the kernel its realtime clock is synchronized. It also provides a new
>> time-synchronized.target so it can be installed alongside an unmodified
>> timesyncd.
>>
>> Initial tests show this meets my needs.  I'd be willing to rework it as a
>> patch to systemd if there's consensus the approach is reasonable.
> Yeah, I figure this makes sense to have. But it would need some
> updates to match what our CODING_STYLE docs suggest (starting with 8ch
> indenting).
>
> Would be great if you could rework it accordingly and submit it as PR.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8494

Peter