Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

I created fakertc for my rpi4. 

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fakertc/

Saves the time on shutdown and sets it back early at boot.

Plus I use ntpdate together with ntpd. Works fine.

Regards,
Ronald

Van: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Datum: 7 juli 2024 18:01
Aan: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Onderwerp: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

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> 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?
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> In the meantime ntpdate seems to work, though deprecated
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> Thanks for reading,
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> bob prohaska
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