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21 Aug
2022
21 Aug
'22
14:56
On Sunday 2022-08-21 16:15, Manfred Schwarb wrote:
So if your RTC is way off, NTP has problems.
Yes but also no. If it's too far off, time synchronization mechanisms usually will just hard-step it within 2-3 minutes after knowing the reference time (because people want to move on and not wait for time smearing to complete). And if you have long running machines, a weak NVRAM battery won't be an issue until you power off the system and (depending on model) also make standby impossible.