[09:49] <danners> hey i am running ubuntu on an odroid u2. everytime i reboot i need to run ntpudate to get the correct time. is there a package that stores the current time on shutdown in a file and restores it on bootup? it doesnt have to be the correct time on reboot, i just want a continous time.
[10:07] <ogra_> danners, by default ntpdate should be run every time a network device is brought up ... is the device not connected ?
[10:07] <danners> ogra_: not always
[10:08] <ogra_> well, there is no hwclock on the odroid ...
[10:08] <ogra_> or rather ... no battery for it
[10:08] <danners> i seem to have in the back of my head, that there is a debian package that does what i want: save the time to a file and restore it from that on reboot. but i cant find it
[10:08] <ogra_> (i think i saw a /dev/rtc at least)
[10:08] <danners> yeah it has no battery for it
[10:08] <ogra_> we have a snippet in our initrd that sets the clock to the last mount time ...
[10:09] <ogra_> (which will indeed be off but prevents you from jan 01 1970)
[10:09] <ogra_> you just have to put "fixrtc" on your kernel cmdline to activate it