getTime.sh / ntp

[onelife]

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to solve the getTime.sh / ntp issue.

Currently here in South Africa the getTime.sh script does not work

Does anyone know how you can use getTime to access a local network ntpd server.

I have a ntp server on the network so ideally I would like to access that.

I've tried using the different "switches" -s for local and / or simply the address 192.168.1.3 with wait -w 20 but no luck.

Do you know if the getTime.sh script will actually talk to a "normal" ntpd server?

Also, another thought - It would be great if there was a way to "save" the system time at point of reboot. IOW, perhaps a way you "pipe" the date into a file and then on start, re-read the date initially from that file before even trying getTime.sh? Just a thought as that would help me on reboot when no internet is available on start up. (I know this means there will be a discrepancy in the time it takes to reboot, but this I can live with rather than the default 1970 date that gets set on startup)

Thanks in advance and chat soon

[tinypoodle]

Do you know if the getTime.sh script will actually talk to a "normal" ntpd server?

No, it's making use of 'daytime' (port 13).

Also, another thought - It would be great if there was a way to "save" the system time at point of reboot. IOW, perhaps a way you "pipe" the date into a file and then on start, re-read the date initially from that file before even trying getTime.sh? Just a thought as that would help me on reboot when no internet is available on start up. (I know this means there will be a discrepancy in the time it takes to reboot, but this I can live with rather than the default 1970 date that gets set on startup)

Simply setting system time according to some external clock with the 'date' command seems like a lesser evil IMHO.

[onelife]

Heyo

Thanks for the reply - Sadly I don't have a RTC on the Pi (Yet) ... Am looking into this and will likely happen in the next few months BUT I really need to try solve the time / date issue now for a few systems I already have.

Do you know what it would take to get a ntp client working on PiCore? I see there is a tcz for the "standard TC".

Thanks again.

[bmarkus]

Do you know what it would take to get a ntp client working on PiCore? I see there is a tcz for the "standard TC".

1) Wait a bit
2) Create yourself

[tinypoodle]

A temporary remedy could be to download a statically linked busybox binary which should include ntpd from here:
http://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/latest/

Something like

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sudo busybox-i686 ntpd -ndqp time.nist.govworks for me, obviously tested with x86 though.

[tinypoodle]

Another quick method could be:

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sudo rdate some.time.serverAt least in Core x86 rdate is included in base already, so no need to install anything.

[bmarkus]

ntp is running here on the Pi, I will add it to repo in a day.

[ovacikar]

For anyone landing on this page via Google etc, there is a simpler way of setting the time using any web server with curl and busybox:

sudo busybox date  -D '%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' -s "`curl -ks --head https://8.8.8.8 | grep '^Date:' | cut -d' ' -f 3-6`"

[curaga]

I don't think you need curl, you can send a HEAD request using nc.

[patrikg]

Or even use busybox wget ??

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./busybox wget -q --spider -S --no-check-certificate https://dns.google

[ovacikar]

Or even use busybox wget ??

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./busybox wget -q --spider -S --no-check-certificate https://dns.google

Needed to redirect stderr to stdout, and readjust the spacing:

sudo busybox date  -D '%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' -s "`busybox wget -O - --spider -S  --no-check-certificate https://dns.google  2>&1 | grep 'Date' | cut -d' ' -f 5-8`"

[patrikg]

And you can even use the more modern way without using the backtick characters.

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sudo busybox date -D '%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S' -s "$(busybox wget -q -O - --spider -S --no-check-certificate https://dns.google 2>&1 | grep 'Date' | cut -d' ' -f 5-8)"