Hello all, Could please someone help me understand, how is the initial date and time are set on the system? I have an embedded system with systemd configured as service manager. Initially, system is not connected to Internet, RTC is not initialized. When I boot the system, I see: ~# timedatectl Local time: Tue 2020-07-14 19:19:34 UTC Universal time: Tue 2020-07-14 19:19:34 UTC RTC time: Thu 1970-01-01 02:06:42 Time zone: n/a (UTC, +0000) System clock synchronized: no systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes RTC in local TZ: no Where systemd takes this date "Tue 2020-07-14 19:19:34 UTC"? There is no previous journal logs in the system, and no /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync/clock. Thanks in advance. (This is a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70524544/how-systemd-sets-the-initial-date-on-the-system ) Regards, Sergei Poselenov