> From: "Todd C. Miller"
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:42:01 -0600
>
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:25:48 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
> > The downside of this is that it becomes impossible to set the time
> > back that far. But the upside is that if you haven't left a machine
> > powered off for a ve
On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:25:48 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> The downside of this is that it becomes impossible to set the time
> back that far. But the upside is that if you haven't left a machine
> powered off for a very long time, the ntpd constraint will actually
> work.
I think that is a reas
A lot of the armv7/arm64 boards do not have a battery powered RTC.
Some of these boards actually do have an RTC, but if the board loses
power, the RTC resets itself. If you then power up the board again,
it will trust the time in the RTC and you find yourself back in 1970.
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