I have a BeagleBone Black system which monitors things on a boat. When it powers up the time is basically random, there's no CMOS clock to give it a start.
Thus I need a way to get it to about the right time and date for ntpd to take over and keep it correct.
What's the normal way of doing this? It needs to be automatically run at startup.
Does it have network connectivity?
man ntp is enlightening.
-- Sent from my Psion 5MX Original Message From: Chris Green Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:12 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] How to set system date/time automatically at power up, no CMOS clock
I have a BeagleBone Black system which monitors things on a boat. When it powers up the time is basically random, there's no CMOS clock to give it a start.
Thus I need a way to get it to about the right time and date for ntpd to take over and keep it correct.
What's the normal way of doing this? It needs to be automatically run at startup.
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