On 09/01/2015 12:14 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Robert Moskowitz
<rgm(a)htt-consult.com> 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...