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Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock?

From	Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock?
Date	2024-11-08 17:21 +0000
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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.

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Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-30 00:00 +0000
  Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? p.dean@invalid.net (Peter Dean) - 2024-10-30 02:48 +0000
    Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-30 03:11 +0000
      Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? p.dean@invalid.net (Peter Dean) - 2024-10-30 03:58 +0000
    Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-30 07:07 -0400
      Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? p.dean@invalid.net (Peter Dean) - 2024-10-30 14:48 +0000
    Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-30 14:11 +0100
      Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-30 20:54 +0000
        Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-10-30 22:19 +0000
          Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-10-30 22:26 +0000
          Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2024-11-08 17:21 +0000
  Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2024-10-30 13:03 +0000
    Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-30 21:30 +0000
      Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-31 02:14 +0000
    Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-11-03 12:49 -0700
  Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-10-30 14:14 +0100
  Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-10-30 09:07 -1000
    Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-30 20:51 +0000
      Re: Who First Thought Of Using GMT/UTC For System Clock? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-10-30 13:13 -1000

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