On Jun 3, 11:20 pm, livibetter wrote:
> This?
>
> hwclock --utc --set --date="$(datestr="$(curlhttp://208.66.175.36:13/
> 2>/dev/null | cut -d \ -f 2-3)" ; echo ${datestr//-//})"
>
> Only hwclock, curl, cut, and Bash.
>
> PS. I didn't know I can set the time via hwclock, learned from Paul's
> pos
I forgot to mention I redirect stderr to /dev/null, because curl
returns error code 56 to me with this message "curl: (56) Failure when
receiving data from the peer"
On Jun 4, 11:20 am, livibetter wrote:
> This?
>
> hwclock --utc --set --date="$(datestr="$(curlhttp://208.66.175.36:13/
> 2>/dev/n
This?
hwclock --utc --set --date="$(datestr="$(curl http://208.66.175.36:13/
2>/dev/null | cut -d \ -f 2-3)" ; echo ${datestr//-//})"
Only hwclock, curl, cut, and Bash.
PS. I didn't know I can set the time via hwclock, learned from Paul's
post, but still didn't try to see if it does work.
On J
Ross writes:
> I'd like to just quickly and with a minimum of parsing (ie no screen-
> scraping) get a unix epoch timestamp (or another format if necessary).
I haven't used this in a while and can't promise it still works:
http://www.nightsong.com/phr/python/setclock.py
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No - it's not really a python specific need, it's just what I'm using
just now, and can't think of where else to ask. It's also my fav test-
bed, as it's so easy.
Your curl example is using grep and date which I don't have available.
I have no fancy libraries, just core parsing capability.
I foun
I don't know what tools do you have on embedded system, but I really
don't think this has to be using Python.
Here is what I would do on a normal desktop using your unique way to
set up time:
date -s "$(curl -s -I http://example.com | grep Date | cut -d \ -f
2-)"
On Jun 4, 8:05 am, Ross wro
I'd like to just quickly and with a minimum of parsing (ie no screen-
scraping) get a unix epoch timestamp (or another format if necessary).
I thought with a quick second search on Google I'd find a URL where I
could do a simple urllib2 based HTTP GET and have a timestamp
returned to me. I don'
