Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

Try -q on ntpd. It will step system time, but only once.

FreeBSD will set the time to the last modification of /. At least for
UFS... I'm guessing this is why it was within a minute.... and is FreeBSD's
psuedo equivalent.

Warner.

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024, 10:01 AM bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> Just tried using ntpd with a fresh 14.1 installation on a Pi4.
> Near as I can tell, ntpd reports a failure due to the clock
> being off by too much, even if it's set manually to within
> a minute before reboot. Probably that's caused by the lack
> of a hardware clock on the Pi4, linux has a bodge called
> fake-hwclock. Is there an equivalent workaround for FreeBSD?
>
> In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> bob prohaska
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