Re: No space left on device ...

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 1:06 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> Albretch Mueller wrote:
> >  In case someone runs into the same problem, for some reason I can't
> > quite understand "sudo hwclock --set" wasn't working. Someone helped
> > me:
> >
> >  https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/util-linux/hwclock.8.en.html
> >  https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime
> >
> >  and "date" worked! Which I has always taken to be a wrapper command to hwclock!
> >
> > $ date
> > Sun 07 Aug 2022 01:35:45 PM UTC
> >
> > $ sudo date --set "2023-05-16 11:13:00 AM"
> > Tue 16 May 2023 11:13:00 AM UTC
> >
> > $ sudo hwclock --get
> > 2022-05-11 02:02:36.883165+00:00
> >
> > $ sudo hwclock --systohc
> >
> > $ sudo hwclock --get
> > 2023-05-16 11:15:22.564093+00:00
>
> Assuming you have network access close to boot time, you might
> want to run an NTP daemon to get the time from a selection of
> other servers.

++. Let the software handle it.

Nowadays, time is something that can be handled locally with a Gossip
protocol. Let your watch or phone or television or toaster tell your
computer what time it is. No need for a remote call to a server.

> Debian runs a pool, which is configured by default in ntp-server
> and chrony, at least.

Jeff