Issues with setting the timeofday

[Rick Altherr]

I'm unfamiliar with Barreleye.  Does the host use the BMC as an RTC?  Are
the commands in the first post being run on the host or on the BMC?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:52:36AM -0700, Rick Altherr wrote:
> > If ntpd or systemd-timesyncd is running, this makes perfect sense.  Linux
> > maintains current time in the kernel.  The hardware RTC is only used to
> > load an initial time at boot and is written during shutdown.  When an NTP
> > daemon is running and an NTP server is reachable, it will adjust the
> > kernel's current time to match NTP time.  I believe with timesyncd, it
> > simply steps time instead of slewing like ntpd does.
> >
> > What are you trying to accomplish?  There is likely a way to do it if you
> > can describe what you want to have happen.
>
> It looks like maybe this is related to Github issue openbmc/openbmc#310.
>
>     https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/310
>
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:06 AM, Vishwanatha Subbanna <
> vishwanath at in.ibm.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > hey Joel,
> > >
> > > Here is what I am seeing on one the Barreleye box that is running
> > > "4.4.12-openbmc-20160606-1 : kernel". I can see that time gets set but
> > > reverts immediately. Syncing what's in hwclock does not have any effect
> > > too. Any thoughts ?
> > >
> > > root at barreleye:~# date -s '2016-12-25 12:34:56' ; hwclock -w
> > > Sun Dec 25 12:34:56 UTC 2016
> > >
> > > root at barreleye:~# date
> > > Thu Jul 7 13:07:37 UTC 2016
> > >
> > > root at barreleye:~# hwclock -r
> > > Sun Dec 25 12:35:01 2016 0.000000 seconds
> > >
> > > root at barreleye:~# hwclock -s
> > >
> > > root at barreleye:~# date
> > > Thu Jul 7 13:07:52 UTC 2016
> > > root at barreleye:~#
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
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