Freek de Kruijf wrote:
In Raspbian I noticed a packet always included in the image called fake-
hwclock. I used the tar.gz file together with a .spec file to generate this
packet for openSUSE distributions for systems without a Real Time Clock.
The description is:
Some machines don't have a working realtime clock (RTC) unit, or no driver for
the hardware that does exist.
fake-hwclock is a simple set of scripts to save the kernel's current clock
periodically (including at shutdown) and restore it at boot so that the system
clock keeps at least close to realtime. This will stop some of the problems
that may be caused by a system believing it has travelled in time back to
1970, such as needing to perform file system checks at every boot.
That is strange. Independent of architecture openSUSE used to have
code in the initrd that made sure that the system's time is set to at
least the time when the initrd was created. Maybe that code got lost
somehow?
cu
Ludwig
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