Re: [chrony-dev] Feature request: Set RTC if error > X secs

[Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:56:50PM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Hi, I have a feature request that I suspect might be straightforward:
[...]
> So what might be very helpful is when sync is established with some
> reliable source, AND the RTC is identified as more than X seconds
> out, then immediately sync RTC.  That way I could set say 30 secs as
> the error term, measure the drift for as long as possible, but
> equally if the machine boots up with a vastly wrong clock then it's
> immediately corrected once clock sync is established (this would
> make initialising these devices much simpler)

I think it's doable, configured maybe as "autotrimrtc 30.0". In my
todo list there is a feature for trimming the RTC automatically on the
first system clock update, but this one would be probably even more
useful.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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