Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Joshua Minor wrote: >> Is it reasonable to assume that the XO's clock is set correctly? >> Specifically I'd like to use python's time.time() to determine which >> participant of an activity has been using it the longest. > > A NetworkManager callout could set it, but it seems we're not > doing it yet. > >> Alternately, is there a simple way to query the network for the >> current time? > > Try: > > ntpdate pool.ntp.org > > This will also set the system clock, but not save the time > in the hardware clock. > > We're also not setting the TZ correctly at this time, and I'm > almost sure that couldn't be done automatically from the > manufacturing data.
...and the, in a root shell (open the terminal and su), use hwclock to set the hardware clock from the system time (I also set it to UTC, should be a Good Thing, but no guarantees). hwclock --systohc --utc gvb _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
