Re: OpenZaurus 3.5.4.1 Alpha1 release

"GROG! (Jeff Howie)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:38:48AM -0500, Don Allen wrote:
>Michael Frotscher wrote:
>>> Perhaps have cron touch /etc/timestamp every now and again? :)
>>
>>Well, to eliminate the need to set the clock after a "hard" reboot
>>you'd need to do that every minute, which would probably shorten
>>battery life significantly because of the harddisk starting up every
>>minute (speaking of spitz/borzoi, of course).
>>
>Even if you did the touch every 15 minutes, it would be preferable to
>having the date/time set to the time in the increasing distant past
>when the system was built.

I've always had mine set to once an hour. Close enough for me & only
24 writes a day.

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