> The date is somewhat complicated... especially a battery drain is
> critical since it wipes out the real time clock (RTC) of the SA1110. And
> you cannot really store the date/time in flash since it would require to
> update it frequently and thus burn out your flash :(
You can set it just once, when the battery is very low (5% or so).
> This is a problem with the busybox date command. It does not understand
> as many formats as the GNU equivalent does. Try somthine like:
>
> date DDMMhhmmYYYY
>
> where
> DD = day of month (two digits)
> MM = month
> hh = hour
> mm = minute
> YYYY = year (four digits)
Didn't work:
$ date -s 170911112002
date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted
Fri May 9 11:11:00 UTC 2003
$date
Mon Jan 5 17:05:59 1970
/sorin gherman
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