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Fix time sync: delays in date/time too large for chrony to compensate #9

@mearlboro

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@mearlboro

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context:
chrony synchronises hats clock with the router NTP server, incrementally
observer and router currently don't have real-time clock modules, the hats do
after not using the system for some time, large inconsistencies in time/date/year... between hats and observer

problem:
chrony can't sync date when it is behind by large increments of time
amounts of delay differ considerably between the two types of devices

possible solutions:

  • setup a time server on the observer, from which the hats fetch the date - the issue with this is that the observer does not have an RTC so its date/time will easily be wrong. doesn't differ much from the router solution.
  • install ntpdate, and run that at boot for all devices

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