On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 01:49:41AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > No, Pavel's clock is fine AFAIK. The message was sent in
> > January. However, it was just received AGAIN today. I don't
>
> Unfortunately, my clock is b0rken. This damn little machine just does
> not have ability to retain time across reboot. [For booting, I need
> winCE. WinCE will crash upon boot if something unexpected (like linux)
> is in memory. Therefore I need to remove main battery for reboot :-(.]
>
> It even does not have ability to retain time correctly during powersave
> mode, but that could be solved.
>
> Before someone says "NTP", this machine is usually not connected anywhere --
> it comunicates via ATA flash. Maybe I could scan flash for newest timestamp
> and use that for date...
On a similar system I use a little trick so the time is at least always
increasing:
- touch the file /etc/timestamp just before the system shuts down
- on bootup I set the time with:
CURRENTTIME=date -r /etc/timestamp
date -s "$CURRENTTIME"
Erik
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