Re: [weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-14 Thread David Beach
I *did* spring for a hardware RTC (a 3231). However, I still had problems and, because of other commitments (like my work, etc!), I did not further investigate why this should be so. Maybe when I get more free time, I'll troubleshoot. In the meantime, I just stuck my RPi on a spare UPS to avoid reb

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-14 Thread bellrichm
It does appear that removing fake-hwclock and installing ntp might enough. On a new install, I removed fake-hwclocked, installed ntp, and disabled networking. On reboot the time stayed at the "default". My net, if you are running WeeWX on a computer without an RTC, do your homework... read the l

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-13 Thread vince
On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 7:29:21 AM UTC-7, David Beach wrote: > I seem to recall that Raspian, if stripped of fake-hwclock, etc., does NOT > start up with the universal Linux Jan 1970 date but uses a date that > corresponds to the release date of that version of Raspian. This means > th

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-13 Thread David Beach
Someone who is a Raspian expert can correct me on this if I'm wrong: I seem to recall that Raspian, if stripped of fake-hwclock, etc., does NOT start up with the universal Linux Jan 1970 date but uses a date that corresponds to the release date of that version of Raspian. This means that prog

[weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-13 Thread G Hammer
I've been a fan of chrony. Hasn't been a problem on any system I've installed it on, easier (for me) to configure and monitor. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-12 Thread vince
> > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:48 PM vince > > wrote: > >> >> Yes - systemd will run its own (not so good) time sync function by >> default. You really don't have to disable it, if you install ntpd systemd >> detects that and lets ntpd drive things re: time. >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 12, 20

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-12 Thread Thomas Keffer
But, does it still record the time and try to use that on startup? -tk On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:48 PM vince wrote: > On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 11:39:22 AM UTC-7, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I ended up disabling timesyncd via >> sudo systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd >> and installing n

[weewx-user] Re: Raspian Stretch and timesyncd

2019-03-12 Thread vince
On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 11:39:22 AM UTC-7, bell...@gmail.com wrote: > I ended up disabling timesyncd via > sudo systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd > and installing ntpd via > sudo apt-get install ntp > > > Yes - systemd will run its own (not so good) time sync function by default. You rea