Re: clock losing time after a reboot with HP ZBook G2
On Friday 03 July 2015 14:38:02 Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 03.07.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Arno Schuring:
> >> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:07:34 +0200
> >> From: vincent@vinc17.net
> >>
> >> When I run "hwclock --systohc" manually before the reboot, the clock
> >> is OK after reboot. So, this seems to be a systemd bug. I've reported:
> >>
> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790974
> >
> > Michael, since I've seen you reply on this list as well, could you
> > please provide a little more rationale than "we intentionally broke
> > your system" when closing a bug?
>
> I didn't say we intentionally broke your system, I said we intentionally
> removed the hwclock-save units. That's a difference.
>
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755722 if you want
> some background.
>
> In short, your ntp client should ensure that the clock is synced to RTC
> (google for "ntp 11 min mode sync" if you want to know more). For that
> we enable timesyncd by default in systemd.
> If you choose to disable timesyncd and/or use another NTP client, then
> this is not a bug in systemd.
>
> Thanks.
So the answer to my question is that the clock is synced to UTC at start-up,
so it doesn't need to remember where it was at shut-down. Is that correct?
Lisi
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