I removed the fake hardware clock from the problematic RPI.  I am not so 
sure about the other one.

Yes, installing an RTC would make sense, but there is no reason for me 
personally.

I have seen the problematic device waiting for a valid time while the DHCP 
server attempts to connect via Wifi, so, for the most part, that seems to 
be working.

Thanks

On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 9:32:39 AM UTC-5, mwall wrote:
>
> michael,
>
> there are a couple of issues at play here, but they all result from having 
> a bogus system time.
>
> 1) if the system time is bogus, then anything that weewx saves to the 
> database will have a bogus time stamp.  this results in current weather 
> data being saved with a timestamp of 1970, or a timestamp in the past that 
> conflicts with data already saved, or a timestamp in the future that then 
> conflicts when the clock is adjusted to the correct time.
>
> 2) the weewx uptime is reported incorrectly
>
> 3) fake hardware clock really screws things up, because it sets the time 
> to something close to ok, but still very much not ok.  this will result in 
> the same symptoms as (1).
>
> in weewx 3.4 there is a fix to prevent weewx from doing anything until the 
> system clock is at least somewhat sane.  this addresses many instances of 
> (1), but it does not deal with (3).
>
> in weewx 3.6 there is a fix that addresses (2).
>
> the best thing to do is to install a realtime clock on the pi.  in lieu of 
> that, at the very least you should remove fake hardware clock, otherwise 
> you risk polluting your database with bogus times.
>
> https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Raspberry-Pi
>
> m
>

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