Hi
Since the clock starts out at Dec 31 1969 18:00:00 CST, it is important to set the date/time to approximately the actual date/time as soon as possible in the bootup sequence.
Not disagreeing, but could you define *why* and then someone might give you some ideas on fixing that, as much as getting chrony going?
If your goal is simply a monotic clock, then you could use the swclock idea from gentoo's openrc. It basically relies on there being some file with a recent timestamp on it (set it at shutdown, using cron, etc), then when you boot you simply read the file timestamp and go with that as a clock estimate.
Clearly the clock will be an unknown amount wrong, but for some purposes (eg monotonically increasing clock) it may be sufficient for your requirements?
I use something similar, get a rough time initially, either from RTC or using swclock, then invest additional time getting a much closer timestamp from chrony and eventually gpsd.
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