[OM2009] Testing 2009-06-11: Misreading hardware clock

[David Fokkema]

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 18:02 +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I had a look at OM2009:
> 
> # flash_eraseall /dev/mtd6
> # wget --no-verbose \
>   http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/testing/daily/NeoFreerunner/fso-paroli-image-om-gta02.jffs2 \
>   -O - | nandwrite -p /dev/mtd6 -
> 
> # flash_eraseall /dev/mtd3
> # wget --no-verbose \
>   http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/testing/daily/NeoFreerunner/uImage-2.6.28-stable+gitr0+f19f259d3c1afde8eae53983fd19f61831927413-r2-om-gta02.bin \
>   -O - | nandwrite -p /dev/mtd3 -
> 
>    The screen says "16:53 Monday, July 13, 2009". That makes it exactly one
> month ahead of time. The 2.6.28 kernel needs a backport of these two
> patches:
> 
> http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=commitdiff;h=60c66130a4467ca2a2994a6e3d7d5ac63839eefb
> http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=commitdiff;h=cc1663fc922c03feb0d7bbb8b18d62fbac0128de
> 

How strange. I've never seen that with Om2009. But, to tell the truth,
I'm not using any other distro on my phone. It might be the case that
Om2009 gets the current datetime from the GSM network after a few
minutes and will set the clock 'correctly' after that.

Regards,

David