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echo: rberrypi
to: HELMUT HARNISCH
from: CHRIS GREEN
date: 2019-01-23 14:28:00
subject: Re: Pi rebooting for some

Helmut Harnisch  wrote:
> Am 20.01.2019 um 10:33 schrieb Chris Green:
> > So, up to 06:49 (where it serves a DNS request, it's running dnsmasq on my
LAN) all seems well,
> > then the time jumps backwards

> When the Pi starts, it has no network. So it does not know the right
> time and date. As soon as the network is up, the os fetches the actual
> time and date from a time server. Thats propably why the time glitches...

Yes, absolutely, but when it was working OK (i.e. upto 06:49) it would
have the correct time, so that's probably the correct time.  I quite
agree that when booting the time is basically random until it gets a
LAN connection up and can ask someone the time.

--
Chris Green
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