Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I would like to sync the system time periodically back to the RTC. > > Currently we update the RTC > (1) when the time is set with clock_settime() or settimeofday(), which > never happens for a typical ntpd setup, > (2) before suspend, > (3) when the system is properly shut down. > > This means if a machine has been running for a few months and it > loses power, it may come back up with the time, say, 200 seconds > off because of RTC drift, and then your SixXS tunnel won't come up > and you can no longer reach your home network on the last day of > u2k15. For example.
I like this, and would also add that the problem is even worse for those systems too cheap to have an RTC. Saving the filesystem time periodically would also be a wonder.
