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Bug#828746: hwclock: RTC to wrong offset after reboot



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On Ma, 28 iun 16, 03:41:34, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 2016-06-27 23:34 GMT+03:00 Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>:
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> > Please check the contents of your /etc/adjtime for starters.
> 
> UTC as expected.
> 
> > Given you're using systemd you're not even running hwclock during your
> > boot. Please see 'systemctl status hwclock.service'.
> >
> > Please read up on the RTC handling strategy usually deployed when using
> > systemd. Please read the information already provided in misc bug
> > reports filed by people requesting to emulate the old strategy used by
> > sysvinit. Some useful sources of information might be:
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time
> > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/timedatectl.html
> > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated/
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-timesyncd
> 
> Right.  So systemd uses an entirely different strategy for time
> adjustment than sysvinit did, in addition to which it comes with a
> built-in NTP client (disabled by default on Debian, for whatever
> reason) that can replace standalone NTP daemons.  Great.  Nice
> features but they are badly documented, from the perspective of
> systems that were migrated from sysvinit.

How much of this is still applicable for buster (or bullseye)?

> At this point, I'm tempted to reassign this bug to release-notes,
> since the migration on Debian from sysvinit as default to systemd as
> default should have explained this, including the justification for
> not enabling the built-in NTP client by default.

As you seem to be familiarised with the issue it would help a lot if you 
provided a paragraph or two describing the issue and what admins have to 
do.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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