RevPi Clock

[SimonMonney]

Hi everyone,

I'm developing a C# executable running on the RevPi. One feature of this logiciel is to read every second a value from an analog input and store the value and the datetime.

Do you know how the RevPi update his time to match with the current time ?

Do you know after how many time the RevPi loses his time ?

Do you know if it is possible to set the RevPi clock to the current time ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Simon

[kjkoster]

Dear Simon,

I think that the Revolution Pi syncs its time automatically. I have installed quite a few Revolution Pi's and never had any one of them drift from real time.

The older ones do not use UTC as the system timezone, but that is easily fixed by running:

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sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC

You can check your own system as shown below:

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$ timedatectl status
               Local time: Wed 2023-03-08 16:14:39 UTC
           Universal time: Wed 2023-03-08 16:14:39 UTC
                 RTC time: Wed 2023-03-08 16:14:40
                Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no

Hope this helps.

Kees Jan