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tasmod · Posted: Tue 18 Oct 2011, 05:34 Post subject:

Version 2.5

Added code to check for DST not applying to a timezone.

tasmod · Posted: Tue 18 Oct 2011, 07:27 Post subject:

Version 2.6

Sorry if this is a bit quick on the heels of 2.5

The time servers report back has changed in text length several times. This required a minor rewrite each time, as the report window contained 'bits' of extraneous text.

Now I believe I have trapped a change in text length and compensated for it.

This means no more minor releases just for that.

This issue has always annoyed me. Cool

tasmod · Posted: Tue 18 Oct 2011, 10:26 Post subject:

Version 2.6-64 for 64bit systems such as FatDog etc

tasmod · Posted: Sat 22 Oct 2011, 11:05 Post subject:

Slacko needs zdump adding to /usr/bin directory. See first page.

Burunduk · Joined: 21 Aug 2011 Posts: 63

Hi,

Psync doesn't set the RTC on my Lupu525 because of two HWCLOCKTIME in the /etc/clock file:

tasmod · Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 07:33 Post subject:

I don't quite understand what you mean.

You have the hardware clock set as localtime.

What do you want to achieve?

tasmod · Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 07:53 Post subject:

Sorry, sorry, got it now.

I switched back to 525 to examine my 'clock' file and I only had one entry. HWCLOCKTIME=utc

Not sure if this wasn't changed by the zone wizard.

I now see what you mean about $HTIME not matching using 525 'clock' file.

Strange no-one has mentioned this. I need to alter the grep line as you suggest to accomodate extra lines. It may be when I first made this change that was just one line entry. I'm on 529 just now and 'clock' contains same as you report for your 525.

Ahh, I remember now, this was a later change to Psync to accomodate UTC being set as option in Zone setting wizard. I originally asked users to use localtime setting only to allow DST.

EDIT:

Confirmed. If the zone wizard is used and the tick ' hardware clock set to utc' then the wizard rewrites the 'clock' file with one line only.
My mistake, I missed this when testing the utc function, I didn't realise it changed the file. So it worked OK during my rewrite testing.

Thanks for pointing this out. I will post a new Psync shortly.

tasmod · Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 08:14 Post subject:

Versions 2.7 and 2.7-64 posted.

Thanks Burunduk

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8680 Location: qld

just a note that Slacko final does contain zdump (no devx)

tasmod · Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 08:35 Post subject:

Yep thanks Mick.

Have 5.3 on test at moment, just setting everything to my liking.

tasmod · Posted: Fri 04 Nov 2011, 16:21 Post subject:

Version 2.8 released. Checks and waits for wifi if using autostart.

shadower_sc · Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 136 Location: Texas

I was having issues with syncing the time on my Re-Mastered Live-CDs.

It game me a few errors. One of them was that it was unable to connect to the server blah.pool.ntp.org.

I fixed it by including this line at the top of the /root/Startup/timesync.sh file.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

Questions

Is this package enabled to use a NTP server that is already on the local LAN?
What must be done to use the local service versus going to the internet via this package?

Thanks in advance

Atle · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 600 Location: Oslo, Norway

Thanks for this beauty. My bios battery was dead and this resolved my challenge with https and pidgin, in in certificates due to wrong year etc in hardware.

Thanks to this little piece of software and some instructions, I now got it all automatic...

Thanks again...

Atle

tasmod · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2012, 16:16 Post subject:

gcmartin,

The ntp call is to a 'pool' addresses of servers hard coded in the function psync, at the top.

Look at top of that, as a test comment out the pool local to you and add your ntp server address. Try synching and see what happens, that's all I can suggest.

If you use 'Europe' then comment out the Europe pool add your address. Use the 'Europe' button on the gui to test.

Let me know how you get on.
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Atle,

Your welcome.