Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 18:01:50 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > There's a fair amount of work gone into configuring the system at the > > moment and I'd rather not have to rebuild it if I don't have to. > > I didn't mean trash your existing SD card's content, but use a spare > one. :-) :-)

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > There's a fair amount of work gone into configuring the system at the > moment and I'd rather not have to rebuild it if I don't have to. I didn't mean trash your existing SD card's content, but use a spare one. :-) > It is really confusing if the Sump Pi says that there was 700 mm

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 16:24:51 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > this makes us wait for up to 10 minutes before the system syncs, but > > when it does the two clocks are exactly the same. > > That's pretty lousy. It would be nice for the NTP server to know to > trust the RTC and be happy to

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > this makes us wait for up to 10 minutes before the system syncs, but > when it does the two clocks are exactly the same. That's pretty lousy. It would be nice for the NTP server to know to trust the RTC and be happy to start serving it from the off. > The bad news is that I have

[Dorset] Raspberry Pi Issue with hwclock

2017-09-10 Thread Terry Coles
Guys, I'm still having problems with our installation at the WMT. I got NTP to work on the remote Pi by using Ralph's ntp-wait work-round; this makes us wait for up to 10 minutes before the system syncs, but when it does the two clocks are exactly the same. That's the good news. The bad