[systemd-devel] Just wanted to say good job on systemd

[Phillip Potter]

Makes perfect sense. Will setup ntpd, thanks.

Regards,
Phil

On 27.06.2012 10:09, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 26.06.12 15:55, Phillip Potter (phil at philpotter.co.uk) wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to say I managed to build this and get it running on my
>> CLFS system with virtually no problems at all - the few problems 
>> that
>> did exist were caused by my own ignorance and soon fixed. Very 
>> simple
>> to use once in place as well. Good job to Lennart and all the
>> developers.
>
> Thanks! Much appreciated!
>
>> To set my hardware clock to the system's time on shutdown, do I need
>> to create a .service file or does systemd do this already? Not a
>> massive deal as I have a sysv script doing it at the moment but 
>> would
>> be good to know. Thanks.
>
> So the idea here is that if NTP is enabled the kernel will sync the 
> RTC
> anyway every 11min hence doing this at shutdown is hardly necessary. 
> And
> during runtime we have little reason to believe that changing the RTC 
> on
> every shutdown does any good for its accuracy or even that the system
> clock was any more accurate than the RTC. Instead, we think that if
> people change the clock by hand it should be the responsibility of 
> the
> tool they use to sync the clock down into the RTC. The "timedated" 
> bus
> mechanism we include makes sure of that.
>
> I hope this makes sense!
>
> Lennart