From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Jun 22 21:40:48 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA20282
          for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:40:48 -0700
Received: from mg1.cdsnet.net (mrcpu@mg1.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA20276
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:40:46 -0700
Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by mg1.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.10) id VAA16028; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:40:39 -0700
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Check the date and time at boot
In-Reply-To: <199506230055.RAA09076@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950622213958.28528S-100000@mg1.cdsnet.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk



On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > Is there any interest in some /etc/rc changes (along with a small
> > helper program) to check if the system date and time may be
> The more correct way to fix this is to use either ntpdate or timed
> at boot time.  Both are already supported by /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig,
> I don't think we need yet a third way to get the date right during boot.


The flaw here is that not everybody is connected to the internet to run a 
clock-checker program...