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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:45:23 +0100
From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: [9fans] timesync -r not working?
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I'm running plan 9 in qemu, I want to use the qemu-emulated hardware clock for the plan 9 time because it keeps the same time as the host.

I made a script to be sourced from cpurc:

	#!/bin/rc

	echo '> starting timesync'

	if (! test -e '/dev/rtc')
		bind -a '#r' /dev
	aux/timesync -r

The script runs at boot, the echo tells me that much, but the time is not set, perhaps as if timesync -r is not working. To be specific the date a few minutes after booting is Sun Jan  2 18:30:36 GMT 2000.

Should I not use timesync at all? I ask because $boottime (which is set before timesync is started) contains a reasonable date.

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Ethan Grammatikidis
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer