Setting Date and Time
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where ''MM'' is the month, 01-12; ''DD'' is the day, 01-31; ''hhmm'' is the time, 0000-2359; ''YYYY'' is the optional year, and ''.ss'' is the optional seconds. | where ''MM'' is the month, 01-12; ''DD'' is the day, 01-31; ''hhmm'' is the time, 0000-2359; ''YYYY'' is the optional year, and ''.ss'' is the optional seconds. | ||
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| + | If your Freerunner is connected to the internet, you can instead set the time automatically: | ||
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| + | opkg install ntpclient | ||
| + | ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org | ||
Finally, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots: | Finally, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots: | ||
Revision as of 18:11, 16 July 2008
Setting date from the command prompt
To change the date on your Freerunner you have to give the command
date -s MMDDhhmm
or
date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY
or
date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss
where MM is the month, 01-12; DD is the day, 01-31; hhmm is the time, 0000-2359; YYYY is the optional year, and .ss is the optional seconds.
If your Freerunner is connected to the internet, you can instead set the time automatically:
opkg install ntpclient ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
Finally, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:
hwclock --systohc
See also Timezone for changing the time zone.
