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    Again, this requires the network to be up?<br>
    <br>
    I use timedatectl to set my timezone, will look more into it.  Could
    be all is rolled together...<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/01/2015 01:35 PM, Nicolas
      Repentin wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:786737858.2.1441128911297.JavaMail.nicolas@shivaserv.fr"
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      <p>Don't know.. I saw this on the web<br>
        <br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>Centos 7 use systemd. I suggest you use it.<br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>Use the command <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/timedatectl.html">timedatectl</a><br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>Enable network time synchronization:<br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>timedatectl set-ntp True<br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
      </p>
      <p>Create a conf file:<br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>vi /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf<br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
      </p>
      <p>with content like this:<br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>[Time]<br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>NTP= yourserver.org<br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
      </p>
      <p>Start systemd-timedated service:<br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p>systemctl start systemd-timedated<br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
        <br>
      </p>
      <p><br>
        <br>
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      </p>
      <p>Nicolas Repentin<br>
      </p>
      <p><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nicolas@shivaserv.fr"><nicolas@shivaserv.fr></a><br>
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          <b>From</b>: Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com><br>
            <b>To</b>: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev@centos.org><br>
              <b>Date</b>: Tue Sep 01 19:26:49 GMT+02:00 2015<br>
              <b>Subject</b>: Re: [Arm-dev] Re: System time<br>
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        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/01/2015 01:15 PM, Nicolas
          Repentin wrote:<br>
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          <p><br>
          </p>
          <p>Oh, I did know about systemd-timesyncd, need to check about
            it :-)<br>
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        <br>
        Can't find it in the repo, what provides it?<br>
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          <p><br>
            <br>
            <br>
          </p>
          <p>Nicolas Repentin<br>
          </p>
          <p><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
              href="mailto:nicolas@shivaserv.fr"><nicolas@shivaserv.fr></a><br>
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              <b>From</b>: Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com><br>
                <b>To</b>: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware <arm-dev@centos.org><br>
                  <b>Date</b>: Tue Sep 01 19:04:38 GMT+02:00 2015<br>
                  <b>Subject</b>: Re: [Arm-dev] System time<br>
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            <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/01/2015 12:16 PM, Nicolas
              wrote:<br>
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            <blockquote
              cite="mid:42c5b20b.1441124088412@shiva.shivaserv.fr"
              type="cite">Hello<br>
              <br>
              I don't think any armv7 board like cubie has a battery to
              backup clock<br>
              I think ntpd is the only way, and seems to work well on my
              bpi with c7. I will check if dns resolution works when
              date is 1970.<br>
              <br>
              I think setting the currenttime can be a good idea on the
              rbf tool :-)</blockquote>
            <br>
            On the Fedora-arm list I was pointed to Systemd-timesyncd<br>
            <br>
            This does MOST of what I want.  All that I think needs to be
            added is for it to be enabled in the image and a initial
            date/time of the image built date be there so the firstboot
            has a decent time.<br>
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                Nicolas Repentin<br>
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              <div class="profimail-cite-prefix">Le 1 septembre 2015
                18:12, Robert Moskowitz a écrit:<br>
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              <blockquote type="cite">How is system time set at boot? 
                Is ntpdate run after the network is <br>
                ready?  How long does it retry waiting for the network
                to be available? <br>
                <br>
                I have seen a number of challenges becuase the system
                time is back at <br>
                the epoch start as there is no battery rtc.  And  I
                wonder how many <br>
                armv7 boards have a battery to maintain time across
                boots? <br>
                <br>
                Minimally, a process could right the time, in the proper
                format, to a <br>
                file, say /etc/currenttime every 5 min and at shutdown.
                <br>
                <br>
                Then date can be run early in the boot process, piping
                this file in.  It <br>
                would not be perfect and does not help, much for new
                installs, but <br>
                better than epoch start. <br>
                <br>
                Plus /etc/currenttime can be at least set to the image
                build date/time <br>
                so not even firstboot will be at epoch start. <br>
                <br>
                Opinions? <br>
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