On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 16:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> writes: > > > However, at the time when I ran ntpdate, ntp was not running. I had > > brought up the network manually due to an interface renaming issue on > > the first boot. Maybe when somebody runs ntpdate in a scenario like > > that the kernel is not sending the new date/time to the hardware clock. > > Right, ntpdate for some reason doesn't set the flag to do this. [...] There is a very good reason, which is that without continuous adjustment the system clock cannot be assumed more stable than the RTC. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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