Op vrijdag 8 december 2017 14:40:12 CET schreef Ludwig Nussel: > 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?
No, it is there, and the remark about Jan 1, 1970 is from the time before that change. However, this time is used each time the system starts, which causes log entries with dates/times that are far from the real time and which, at least after a proper shutdown, should be later than the date/times used just before the shutdown. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf member openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
