4 Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8)
6 Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0
10 Depends: ${misc:Depends}
12 Description: Save/restore system clock on machines without working realtime clock
13 Some machines don't have a working realtime clock (RTC) unit, or no
14 driver for the hardware that does exist. fake-hwclock is a simple set
15 of scripts to save the kernel's current clock periodically (including
16 at shutdown) and restore it at boot so that the system clock keeps at
17 least close to realtime. This will stop the problems of needing
18 filesystem checks at every boot due to the system believing it has
19 travelled in time back to 1970.
21 On top of this, use of NTP is still recommended to deal with the fake
22 clock "drifting" while the hardware is halted or rebooting.