Re: [9fans] timesync -r not working?

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:39:12 -0700
John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >> > > 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.
> >> >
> >> > i believe timesync is setting the system clock from /dev/rtc, not the other way
> >> > around.
> >>
> >> Yeah, that's what I expect timesync to do, but it's doing something strange instead.
> >
> > i wouldn't classify doing what the man page says it does
> > as something "really strange".  if you want the converse,
> > then just execute "date -n >/dev/rtc".
> >
> > - erik
> >
> >
> 
> I'm pretty sure he's *trying* to get the time from /dev/rtc, not
> trying to set it.
> 

You'd be right.

I've found I don't seem to need timesync, the system time & /dev/rtc alike seem to stay in sync with the host without it, but I'm still curious why timesync -r should mess up the system time so badly.

Perhaps /dev/rtc and the system time are linked on some architectures, so that setting one sets the other and so timesync -r gets in a mess. Just a guess.

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Ethan Grammatikidis
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