[GRLUG] Raspbmc help-Changing date

[Andrew Hekman]

If your router keeps accurate time, you can grab the current time from the HTTP headers with netcat.

aj at Compaq:~$ nc 192.168.1.1 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.1

HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:33:58 GMT
[..snip..]

so you could run this at startup or via cron:

sudo date -s "`printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" | nc -n -i 1 192.168.1.1 80 | grep Date | sed 's/Date:\ //'`"


-AJ





On Jul 20, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Edwardo Fuentes wrote:

> Holy quick response....
> I don't know how to install the time protocol on the my device. 
> I have searched the root menu while it is connected ; most the folders are hidden.
> I am going to pull open it up on Ubuntu & see if I can locate the ntp.log and direct it to local host
>  
> If any thing else comes to mind... feel free to add. 
> 
> thanks
> Edwardo
> 616.834.3023
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Edwardo Fuentes
> <edwardo.fuentes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > -Josh thanks for getting me set up & with xbmc.
> > -Casey Thanks for hosting the event.
> >
> >
> > My Date is locked on 12/31/1969 - 7:55pm.
> > I cant find any folder to adjust date.
> >
> >
> > I have set my time zone to America/Detroit - & 12 hour time setting.
> > My IP address shows & am able to stream from network.
> >
> > Any suggestions....?
> 
> I assume you have a shell? The 'date' command should allow you to set
> the date. That said, it's my understanding the Pi doesn't have an RTC,
> so you'll lose the date across reboots.
> 
> What you really want is ntpd installed and running.
> 
> 
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