Re: [beagleboard] Date/Time syncronization (Ubunutu 13.04)

2015-03-24 Thread Craig Markwardt
Updating every minute risks wearing out your emmc flash storage, especially if you do a 'sync' afterwards. I used 6 hours, and of course I updated the timestamp at shutdown. Craig On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:18:01 AM UTC-4, s.p.e...@gmail.com wrote: So, troubled by the same situation

Re: [beagleboard] Date/Time syncronization (Ubunutu 13.04)

2015-03-16 Thread s . p . emmons
So, troubled by the same situation and not finding any alternatives, I tried this technique. However, it doesn't seem to work -- at least on my BB Black with the 2015-03-01 build. In fact, I had a hint that it would not work even before I tried it. My original /etc/timestamp file had a March 1

[beagleboard] Date/Time syncronization (Ubunutu 13.04)

2013-10-14 Thread leo mayer
I'm running on Ubuntu 13.04 and I'm curious how the time-sync is working behind the curtain. The reason for asking is sometimes after powering up the BBB there is no network-connection available. Therefore it takes some stored/saved (?) time from

Re: [beagleboard] Date/Time syncronization (Ubunutu 13.04)

2013-10-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:29 AM, leo mayer leo.ze...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running on Ubuntu 13.04 and I'm curious how the time-sync is working behind the curtain. The reason for asking is sometimes after powering up the BBB there is no network-connection available. Therefore it takes some

Re: [beagleboard] Date/Time syncronization (Ubunutu 13.04)

2013-10-14 Thread leo mayer
1) Can I launch the ntp-update after the boot when the network is ready? i.e. don't execute before the network-connection is established. I guess I have to configure some init-scripts, but I guess at well they should already be there (from Ubuntu?). Since I don't wanna reinvent