Written by Xan Manning inspired by fake-hwclock by Steve McIntyre
Save/restore system clock on machines without working RTC hardware.
Dead simple C program initially designed for Arch Linux ARM that works like fake-hwclock on Debian.
It is recommended to install this via the ArchLinux AUR, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fake-hwclock-git/ for a package in the ArchLinux AUR.
Please follow the instructions from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages
Suggested packages: ntp and cron.
make
make install
To set system time on start up and save system time on halt, enable the systemd service:
systemctl enable fake-hwclock.service
To keep fake-hwclock up to date in case of power failure, install and enable ntp and add the following job to your root crontab (sudo crontab -e):
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/fake-hwclock
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