Re: chrony date months off

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
>
>The script works like this: if the root device is specified on the 
>kernel command line AND the word "fixrtc" is  specified, then get the 
>time that the root file system was last mounted. The script then uses 
>"date" to set the clock to that date stamp.
>
>I assume that the idea is that, rather than having the clock start at 
>1970, it's better to start it at, say, yesterday. You've still got quite 
>a lot of slewing to do if you connect to NTP, but at least there's a 
>chance that you can verify certificates etc.

I also wrote fake-hwclock (packaged in Debian) for this kind of reason.

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