Simple/obvious drastic improvement.

From	Unknown <dog@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Simple/obvious drastic improvement.
Date	2015-07-02 18:52 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<pan.2015.07.02.18.54.03@gmail.com> (permalink)

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This is how I know you-are-all-slackers and not advancing the power 
of linux:

Given the decaying memory of all biological entities, including humans,
the 'stack' and the ordering that it gives is central to any process:
from making a cheese & onion sandwich to computing.

The ordering/recentcy provided by the stack demands a RTC.
The need to reset the RTC of the rPi on every reboot would be acceptable,
if this was obviously easy.

Consider: M$:DOS `date`:-
1. shows what its current value is;
2. shows a *VALID SYNTAX* to be easily copied to update, if required.

In contrast *nix: `man date` is 196 lines long !!!

Must each of us zillion slaves break off his important tasks to
research the required syntax for this essential RTC setting.
I did that wastefull brain-numbing exercise 5 years ago - and forgot it.

An example of why date stamping files is essential is:
when trying to recover yesterdays <notes files> in a directory which
has plenty old *.pdf & *BIG.wav ..etc. files. You can't just see the
new files <floating to the stack top>; and searching is painfull,
uneconomical and STOOPID.

How many million rPi & similar need to find victims before they
write a 1-liner: Date, which EASILY allows any fool to set the RTC?

And put the damned label on the front of the bottle - not inside.

Forget about multi-cores and over-clocking. 
It's the boring, trivial details that makes the big difference.

rPi is rather successful because of the 'eco-system' it's got;
which could never be 'built' in most of the rest of the world.

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Simple/obvious drastic improvement. Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-07-02 18:52 +0000
  Re: Simple/obvious drastic improvement. ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-02 20:29 +0000
    Re: Simple/obvious drastic improvement. Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2015-07-03 00:53 +0100
    Re: Simple/obvious drastic improvement. Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-07-03 07:56 +0000
  Re: Simple/obvious drastic improvement. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-07-02 21:29 +0100
  Raspberry Pi 2 1gb version to make a BTC or LTC Virtual Currency Node. mrbrad <lostgonzo@gmail.com> - 2015-07-03 02:38 -0500

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