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Re: Simple/obvious drastic improvement.

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On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:52:12 +0000, Unknown wrote:

> 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.

If you have it networked, ntp is the obvious and most simple solution.

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