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 reboots!
David On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 18:20, <bellri...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 logs, test network slowness/failures, etc. > Or just spring for a RTC ;) > rich > > > On Tuesday, 12 March 2019 22:44:26 UTC-4, vince wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:48 PM vince <vince...@gmail.com> 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, 2019 at 3:20:15 PM UTC-7, Thomas Keffer wrote: >>> >>> But, does it still record the time and try to use that on startup? >>> >>> >> I don't know.... >> Certainly no harm in disabling it in systemd to try to make sure, but >> then also do the normal disabling of fake-hwclock too I guess. >> >> Bottom line is we probably want a system with no battery-backed-up clock >> to power up cleanly with a time old enough so weewx does its "wait for good >> time before starting" thing. That was something like 'wait until the >> system clock is newer than the modification date of weewx.conf' or the >> like, wasn't it ? >> >> This stuff'll make you crazy. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/_kuJsQBQghM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
