Re: systemd, ntp, kernel and hwclock

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:

> Having ntpdate clear the unsynced flag doesn't make sense since it would
> start writing a time to the RTC each 11 minutes, and as Ben said you
> have no idea which of the 2 clocks is the most correct one.

Oh, I thought it was a one-shot thing, but it turns on syncing behavior
from that point forward.  Thanks, that was the piece that I was missing.

> I can also understand that systemd doesn't set the clock for just the
> same reason. Either the clock is synched and it's written, or it's not
> suched, it's unknown which one is the most correct, and it's not
> written.

Yeah, it now makes perfect sense to me.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>