On 1/6/24 12:07, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 06/01/2024 18:40, gene heskett wrote:
Put all system clocks on UTC, and then /etc/timezone is the actual
string specifying the local offset. No doubt some user confusion, but
overall a lot simpler.
I still do not see any connection with splitting a part of files and
links into another package tzdata-legacy. Kernel anyway keeps time in
UTC, RTC nowadays is mostly in UTC as well.
Notice that /etc/timezone is a legacy Debian-specific way, most of
applications use the /etc/localtime symlink.
I do not think there are strong reasons for tzdata-legacy, but I do not
see a reason for rant as well.
Or, if someone know how to make systemd's timesyncd actually work,
I've not been able to do that on 7 machines here, that would be
appreciated too. Lack of documentation (man pages) for that puppy is
a major blockaid here on bookworm.
Even if you do not use search engines for some reason, have you tried to
ask at least systemd itself?
systemctl help systemd-timesyncd
Does not exist as I manually deleted it and installed ntpsec when I
could not find any docs to help make it work. I needed a timeserver
that did not depend on debians pool and ntpsec answered the call.
I set it up as a stratum 2 server, referencing the debian pool and just
now got done re-configuring ntp.conf on the rest of my machines that are
currently booted, to use this machine as a server.
If debian is going to supply systemd's timesyncd as a client, I expected
a bookworm install to just work. It did not and without docs I have to
pester the list, which has gotten me a bad rep because the lack of docs
for this stuff has me in a screw google frame of mind by the time I get
around to asking the list. Lately, everytime I go anywhere near google
or a gmail link I get attacked by a virus that calls itself norton
antivirus. That is an oxymoron, like military intelligence.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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