Cloud: update time without ddns?

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1

Hello everybody,

with Mikrotik’s cloud service it’s possible to disable dynamic dns update, but enable time update:

/ip cloud set ddns-enabled=no update-time=yes

Not sure if this is a valid configuration, so:

  • Does the device update the time if dynamic dns is disabled?
  • Can I check if time has been updated? (“/ip cloud get status” is not available without ddns)

I would use the latter from a script to check if time can be expected to be correct…

2

That time should only used for when nothing else is configured, but it’s not very precise. Better just configure NTP client to time.google.com

3

Yes, I know that. I have configured NTP on all my devices.

Still I have a script that requires the time to be “about right” at least (so cloud is fine) - and this script should work on as many devices as possible with whatever configuration.
I would still appreciate to have detailed information on time update from cloud and its status.