Re: [chrony-dev] can chrony adjust H/W clock too ?q:q

["J. Bakshi" <joydeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, J. Bakshi wrote:
> 
> > Thanks a lot for your clarification and suggestion. Then I do
> > continue with the corn - way as you suggest.  I understand as ntp
> > chrony has been designed to address the system time. Maybe in
> > future it can also take care of rtc clock too as rtc clock has its
> > own importance on the system and an accurate rtc clock is always a
> > must.
> 
> Well, no, an accurate rtc is not really a must. Especially with
> chrony. You can tell chrony to query a remote ntp source and if the
> time is out by more than x, it will step the time. If less, it will
> slew the time, quite rapidly. (chrony converges much faster than does
> ntpd) Thus it is not really important that the rtc be accurate. But
> as I said, chrony can use the rtc to start up relatively accurately
> ( but you cannot use ntp and hwclock together. Neither knows about
> the other)
> 

Yes I agree with you. The objective is to sync with ntp. But I might be permitted dreaming that one day chrony can adjust the rtc too.

Thanks

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