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echo: rberrypi
to: CHRIS GREEN
from: DRUCK
date: 2019-01-23 21:32:00
subject: Re: Pi rebooting for some

On 23/01/2019 14:28, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.

It's not random, it has a fake hardware clock module which periodically
saves the current time, then uses it on a reboot before ntp kicks in.

e.g. Times in Syslog may look something like

2115 Save Clock
2118 Crash
2115 Restarting
2120 Got NTP

---druck

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