David Taylor <david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > On 14/08/2013 12:54, unruh wrote: > [] >> Except of course if the rd_timestamp.l_i is way out (that is why one >> would want to use a gps clock to fix it-- eg on bootup with the >> Raspberry Pi say), > [] > > Could you not use something like the timestamp of some file (e.g. the > drift file) or other system file to get the approximate year? I haven't > studied the code (I find C not easy to read or navigate) so perhaps it > already does this. Then you would only need to set the real time once? > > As it happens, all of my RPi pack will have an Internet source as well, > and they all have recent GPS receivers which (I hope) don't have this > issue....
The raspberry pi already does that. It regularly (and on shutdown) saves the date/time in a file and loads that on boot. No need to handle this in ntpd. it is done in the /etc/init.d scripts. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
