Re: OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 Alpha1 release

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:29 +0100, Martin Preuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 22 March 2006 09:07, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> [...]
> > > 2. System time-keeping -- this is completely haywire. Each time you
> > > reboot, it resets the date/time to 3/20/2006 and sometime in the early
> > > morning. Perhaps the date/time the system was built?
> >
> > Time should be written on reboot to /etc/timestamp - it will not work if
> > you force reboot.
> [...]
> 
> Just a question, because I noticed the same behaviour on my collie: When I 
> reboot the machine "the hard way" (e.g. using the battery switch on the back 
> of the beast) it always starts with the time in the past (as far as I can see 
> that is the build/compile time).
> 
> I don't know the hardware of the collie so: Doesn't the collie have a hardware 
> clock? If so, why is the date reset after a hard boot? And if not: How does 
> the machine keep the time in suspend mode?

The clock is reset upon reboots. This is a limitation of the hardware
and there is nothing we can do on any of the SA1100/PXA devices.

Perhaps have cron touch /etc/timestamp every now and again? :)

Richard



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