ipaq 3800 Linux
Thursday, May 9, 2002[1:09:25 PM]
ntpdate grabs the date and time from a server you specify:
ntpdate time.apple.com
This gets the date/time, but the date command will default to GMT. The handhelds.org wiki says:
"To correct this, install an appropriate timezone file on the iPAQ at /etc/localtime. You should be able to find a link to such an appropriate timezone file at /etc/localtime on your desktop Linux system. After you have installed /etc/localtime, to get existing time displays to update (like the blackbox time), you may need to stop and start the appropriate process. You may find that /etc/init.d/x stop then /etc/init.d/x start done via a serial console or over a ssh session on the iPAQ, will provide the desired results."
Yeah, right. /etc/locatime on my linux system is a binary file of some sort. Ouch. But now my ipaq can tell me what time it is.
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Last update: 9/8/02; 11:13:19 AM.