date and GPS related questions

[Steve " 'dillo" Okay]

On Mar 14, 2009, at 02:35 , Fernando Martins wrote:

> Mike Montour wrote:
>> Fernando Martins wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 1) I got the date reset to 1970 a few times. I was not paying  
>>> attention
>>> but I guess this happens when battery is removed, i.e., there's no
>>> battery specific for the clock?
>>>
>>
>> There is a backup battery. Make sure that the system time is being  
>> saved
>> to the hardware clock, e.g. "hwclock --utc --systohc".
>>
>>
> I'm sure I did it, per Wiki page (no --utc)
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Date. Next time I remove the battery,  
> I'll
> pay more attention to the date.

It seems like it should be possible to also get the time from your  
GSM carrier.
This kind of half-happens already.
When I flew back from Italy last week, I had a layover in DC and
swapped out my Voda SIM(which I finally got working :) ) for my T- 
Mobile one.
The FR updated the clock from CET to EDT on registration, but remained
stuck on EDT even after I arrived in SF and was in the Pacific Time  
Zone.

So the data can be pulled out somewhere, it's just not being done  
consistently.

---Steve