Re: system clock workaround

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de>]

> (Maybe allowing someone to type in a date, if it is possible at all, is
> somehow insecure, but I am the only user at the console).
> 
try this in your ntpdate startup script:

if ! ntpdate <timehost(s)>; then
  while :; do
    read -p "ntpdate failed. please enter date by hand: " date
    date -s $date && break
  done
fi
hwclock --systohc

this is only an idea ...

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