Re: How to set the system time ?

[Andy Gatward <agatward@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Not the rtc, just the used system time of the OS.
>
> date -s STRING, where STRING is of the format MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

Or if you want to keep the clock synchronised to the real time, NTP is 
your friend :)

I have an external I2C battery-backed RTC on my board from which I grab 
the inital time on bootup and save the current system time to on 
shutdown.  I then use NTP to keep the system time in sync with Internet 
time servers.

I needed the external RTC because the it seems the AT91RM9200 doesn't 
have a provision for powering the RTC circuitry externally.

- Andy

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