On 2024-10-30, Scott Lurndal <
scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:11:07 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On the original IBM PC and most clones you had to type the time and date >>> on every boot.
Funnily enough, you still have to do that on a Raspberry Pi. Because that >>product has such a low cost, even a battery-backed-up clock would add too >>much to it.
Not particularly funny, nor true. Several i2c RTC are available for rPI for less than a sawbuck. If network connected, NTP is just a packet away.
That is the strength of the rPI, configurability and extension.
Indeed I fully agree - but the bare board (4 or less, I don't know about
the 5) doesn't have a realtime clock and that is all he is saying. There
was quite a bit of discussion about that in the rpi forums in the early
days.
I have several pi's and the only one that has an i2c RTC addon connected
is the home server which acts, among another things, as an NTP server
for the other RPi's and other machines.
--- MBSE BBS v1.0.8.4 (Linux-x86_64)
* Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (3:633/280.2@fidonet)