@smb what I have seen is that devices lacking RTC battery tend to never had a good date in the "last mount day" date of the root filesystem, as when root is mounted the date is always near the epoch. The patch can correct this, otherwise we would be getting the date systemd was built.
Of course this is not terribly accurate, but solves issues with certificates/assertions that were deemed as not yet valid on first boot if there was no network. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1696981 Title: fixrtc is ineffective when there is no battery for the RTC Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When there is no battery for the RTC, fixrtc is not able to find a good enough date. To fix the clock, this script is using the last time the root filesystem was mounted, but as that is done before there is any network, and as after a reboot/poweroff the RTC time is always reset (because time is not kept due to lack of battery), the mount time will never be good. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1696981/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
