On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 8:58 AM Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > Hi. > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 08:42:45AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > > I guess a question is why you want an RTC. If you have a decent > > internet connection just run NTP on something and it will set the > > computer's clock. > > IPSec, Tor, sec=krb5* NFS mounts.
And anything related to X.509. In the old days of cell phones, back when you needed a SIM card to get time from the network, you had to jump through hoops to use a non-provisioned device for development. I think things have gotten better since then. I don't recall seeing clock problems on unprovisioned devices in a while. > At least these four things are badly screwed if Debian OS lacks access > to RTC. Systemd manages to launch those before NTP-based time > synchronization kicks in, which leads to funny things to say the least. This may be a Systemd bug. > And last, but not least, having working RTC leads to meaningful > timestamps in log files that describe "early boot" (i.e. before NTP time > sync kicks in), and that's valuable to me by itself. Jeff
