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

[Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net>]

On 06/27/2009 12:16 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> 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.


I also run Plan 9 in qemu, the:

	aux/timesync -n pool.ntp.org

solved a similar problem here.

Hope that helps,
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