The archlinux wiki says this should work at boot even without a network connection but it is not. Perhaps there is some extra steps to set this up right?
If not, is this a bug? Not supprising that the Intel based testing did not see this, as how many Intel boxes do not have an rtc? Only those with dead batteries...
On 09/01/2015 01:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I just did a test, as timedatectl indicates that ntp is on. It did not set the time on reboot. It is not doing that auto stuff mentioned in the description. :(
On 09/01/2015 01:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Oh, I should have read further down the page of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-timesyncd
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On 09/01/2015 01:38 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Again, this requires the network to be up?
I use timedatectl to set my timezone, will look more into it. Could be all is rolled together...
On 09/01/2015 01:35 PM, Nicolas Repentin wrote:
Don't know.. I saw this on the web
Centos 7 use systemd. I suggest you use it.
Use the command timedatectl http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/timedatectl.html
Enable network time synchronization:
timedatectl set-ntp True
Create a conf file:
vi /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf
with content like this:
[Time]
NTP= yourserver.org
Start systemd-timedated service:
systemctl start systemd-timedated
Nicolas Repentin
--------- Original Message --------- *From*: Robert Moskowitz *To*: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware *Date*: Tue Sep 01 19:26:49 GMT+02:00 2015 *Subject*: Re: [Arm-dev] Re: System time
On 09/01/2015 01:15 PM, Nicolas Repentin wrote:
Oh, I did know about systemd-timesyncd, need to check about it :-)
Can't find it in the repo, what provides it?
Nicolas Repentin
--------- Original Message --------- *From*: Robert Moskowitz *To*: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware *Date*: Tue Sep 01 19:04:38 GMT+02:00 2015 *Subject*: Re: [Arm-dev] System time
On 09/01/2015 12:16 PM, Nicolas wrote:
Hello
I don't think any armv7 board like cubie has a battery to backup clock 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.
I think setting the currenttime can be a good idea on the rbf tool :-)
On the Fedora-arm list I was pointed to Systemd-timesyncd
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.
Nicolas Repentin nicolas@shivaserv.fr
Le 1 septembre 2015 18:12, Robert Moskowitz a écrit: > How is system time set at boot? Is ntpdate run after the > network is > ready? How long does it retry waiting for the network to be > available? > > I have seen a number of challenges becuase the system time is > back at > the epoch start as there is no battery rtc. And I wonder how many > armv7 boards have a battery to maintain time across boots? > > Minimally, a process could right the time, in the proper format, > to a > file, say /etc/currenttime every 5 min and at shutdown. > > Then date can be run early in the boot process, piping this file > in. It > would not be perfect and does not help, much for new installs, but > better than epoch start. > > Plus /etc/currenttime can be at least set to the image build > date/time > so not even firstboot will be at epoch start. > > Opinions? > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev
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