On 2020-11-29, Jim Jackson wrote:

>> Your biggest problem will be deciding where to get your clock updates from;
>> do you open the Pi to the internet or run a timeserver on another machine.
>
> Buy an RTC addon for those times when it reboots, and setup NTPD on it,
> sync'ing from a couple of reliable internet timeservers. Then run the Pi
> as your network time source.
>
> My home serving Pi is setup like that. Not that the RTC addon is used
> much, as my Pi only reboots once in half a dozen blue moons! I do sync
> the RTC from the system even day - so it isn't out by much if it does
> reboot, until it gets ntp sync. ntp maintained system time is far far
> more accurate than any RTC
>
> I used the AB electronics PiZero RTC

Just out of curiosity, what significant benefits do you get from the
RTC?  I have NTP running on mine, and the only anomaly I notice is
this sort of thing in the `last` output:

reboot   system boot  5.4.79-v7l+      Thu Jan  1 01:00   still running

although `uptime` is correct and I can't find any '1970' or 'Jan' in
any of the greppable log files.


--
so ladies, fish, and gentlemen,
here's my angled dream

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05