Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be> writes: > Having ntpdate clear the unsynced flag doesn't make sense since it would > start writing a time to the RTC each 11 minutes, and as Ben said you > have no idea which of the 2 clocks is the most correct one.
Oh, I thought it was a one-shot thing, but it turns on syncing behavior from that point forward. Thanks, that was the piece that I was missing. > I can also understand that systemd doesn't set the clock for just the > same reason. Either the clock is synched and it's written, or it's not > suched, it's unknown which one is the most correct, and it's not > written. Yeah, it now makes perfect sense to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
