Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:40:25 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump optr.c Message-ID: <20040521.154025.66007717.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <43129.1085175068@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200405212013.i4LKDXg1060233@repoman.freebsd.org> <43129.1085175068@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: Uhm, this is all find and well for running in multiuser, but if you
: boot single-user the system does not know what time it is (reliably).
Why wouldn't it? It is no worse than a system that doesn't run ntpd.
The RTC is relatively reliable. Sure, it won't be sub-microsecond,
but even if it is +- 1 minute or even +- 10 minutes it is much better
than it is now.
Warner
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