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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fwd: Building a Raspberry Pi image / Keyboard support
Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2014 07:58:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F8589047-10C2-4647-893C-FF1C2F4878E0@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmJbGvT4ginpEEEmxVT3wUrRvxtPGKkVhwmKi6oEmiaxNw@mail.gmail.com>

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On one RPi I am using a GPS module. I need to add support for its PPS signal for more accurate time keeping.

> On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:39 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> there are RTC modules for the pi (talk over i2c, based on DS1307 or DS3231). i use them with linux distro's and they seem to work fine.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>> > By the way, how I can arrage the correct time in this system?
>> > I don't mean the /adm/timezone/local, because
>> > in the usual PC, we can change it at BIOS screen.
>> 
>> Unlike a PC, the raspberry pi doesn't have a battery-backed
>> real time clock.  If you configure a kernel without the 'fakertc'
>> device, it will prompt you to enter the time and date when you
>> power on.  For me this was too annoying, which is why I made the
>> fakertc device.  With a network connection, the time should be
>> corrected by aux/timesync soon after booting.
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-07 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6D8D77BA-B884-43B8-B23B-69A1823EA275@hamnavoe.com>
2014-07-07 13:59 ` Richard Miller
2014-07-07 14:39   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-07-07 14:58     ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2014-07-07 23:53   ` kokamoto
2014-07-08  0:19     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-07-08  0:37       ` erik quanstrom
2014-07-08 16:00         ` Kurt H Maier

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