7 Jun
2009
7 Jun
'09
12:06 a.m.
Juergen wrote:
How will chrony help here if the PC is not online at boot time?
- chronyd can perform usefully in an environment where access to the time reference is intermittent. chronyd estimates both the current time offset and the rate at which the computer's clock gains or loses time, and can use that rate estimate to trim the clock after the reference disappears.
Doesn't apply to the use case. This is *before* the PC goes online.
- chronyd provides support to work out the gain or loss rate of the `real-time clock', i.e. the clock that maintains the time when the computer is turned off. It can use this data when the system boots to set the system time from a corrected version of the real-time clock.
There is no corrected version of the real-time clock before the PC goes online.
H