Setting Date and Time - Revision history

Waraqa: /* Setting the date/time using "date" */ Example

2012-08-07T05:24:08Z

‎Setting the date/time using "date": Example

2010-03-23T03:02:01Z

‎Setting the date/time automatically with gps: linkfix

2009-10-09T13:24:01Z

linkfix

2009-10-07T15:53:47Z

cosmetics

2009-07-19T09:10:33Z

catchg

2009-04-23T23:29:05Z

‎Setting date/time from your linux box

2009-04-17T19:46:32Z

‎Setting date/time from your linux box

2009-04-17T19:42:27Z

2009-03-22T23:15:06Z

‎Syncing the hardware clock

2009-03-07T14:53:40Z

‎Syncing the hardware clock

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	where ''MM'' is the month, 01-12; ''DD'' is the day, 01-31; ''hhmm'' is the time, 0000-2359; ''YYYY'' is the optional year, and ''.ss'' is the optional seconds.		where ''MM'' is the month, 01-12; ''DD'' is the day, 01-31; ''hhmm'' is the time, 0000-2359; ''YYYY'' is the optional year, and ''.ss'' is the optional seconds.
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		+	=== Example ===
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		+	If the date is: 07 Aug 2012 and the time is: 05:16, You can simply write:
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		+	date 0807051612

	== Setting date/time from your linux box ==		== Setting date/time from your linux box ==

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 [http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/gpv/ GPS Sight] has a button to sync the hardware clock to the gps clock.
-First you have to make sure gps works on you neo. You can do that by following the steps in the [[Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner#Use_the_GPS]].
+First you have to make sure gps works on you neo. You can do that by following the steps in the [[Howto_Test_Your_GPS_with_agpsui]].
 The second step is to install GPS Sight:

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 Note:
-If you run the [[ASU]] or [[Qtopia]] image, hwclock will not work. The missing /dev/misc/rtc could be establish with
+If you run the [[ASU]] or [[Qtopia / Qt Extended on FreeRunner|Qtopia]] image, hwclock will not work. The missing /dev/misc/rtc could be establish with
   mkdir /dev/misc

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 If your FreeRunner is connected to the internet, you can instead set the time automatically:
-<code>
+ opkg install ntpclient
-opkg install ntpclient<br/>
+ ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
 ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
-</code>
 If your FreeRunner is connecting to the internet through a USB host, make sure you allow UDP traffic to pass through on port 123 (NTP) on your host machine or you may get a "no route to host" error from ntpclient.

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 Presumably it might also be possible to use gpspipe (or something else) to set the date once you have a gps fix automatically?  In addition, the phone stack should set the date, time, and timezone once connected to a network.
-[[Category:Settings]]
+[[Category:Middleware settings]]
-[[Category:Advanced End User]]

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 == Setting date/time from your linux box ==
-Following method works independently of locale settings:
+For busybox date (openmoko, shr and so on):
 <pre>
 ssh root@openmoko "date -us @`date -u +%s`"

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 == Setting date/time from your linux box ==
-<pre>
+Following method works independently of locale settings:
-ssh root@openmoko "date -u -s `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`"
-</pre>
-−
-Following looks better and works for me:
 <pre>
 ssh root@openmoko "date -us @`date -u +%s`"
 </pre>
 To also copy your timezone file, add an echo command:
-  ssh root@openmoko "date -u -s `date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`; echo `cat /etc/timezone` > /etc/timezone"
+  ssh root@openmoko "date -us @`date -u +%s`; echo `cat /etc/timezone` > /etc/timezone"
 == Setting date/time with a python GUI ==

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 If you run the [[ASU]] or [[Qtopia]] image, hwclock will not work. The missing /dev/misc/rtc could be establish with
-mkdir /dev/misc;
+ mkdir /dev/misc
-ln -s /dev/rtc /dev/misc/rtc
+ ln -s /dev/rtc /dev/misc/rtc
 but the device is usually busy due to the atd daemon.

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 but the device is usually busy due to the atd daemon.
-Instead you can use:
+Instead you can use this command causing atd to write the current time into the rtc:
   echo -e "W\n" > /var/spool/at/trigger