Re: [ARMini-support] Is it possible to get the correct time
- From: Harriet Bazley <harriet.bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:50:44 GMT
On 25 Mar 2015 as I do recall,
Chris Hall wrote:
> In message <e132c9a954.Andrew-Pin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In message <c90b97a954.harriet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > on 24 Mar 2015 Harriet Bazley <harriet.bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
[snip]
> >> NetTime periodically
> >> (every few months) fails to synchronise at boot-up, which is rather
> >> noticeable since it results in Messenger's downloading an entire batch
> >> of mail dated 1970, and then wiping all the files a few minutes later
> >> when NetTime makes a subsequent successful attempt at setting the
> >> clock and the e-mail becomes thoroughly overdue for expiry. :-(
>
> > One cause of this could be a failure at boot to connect to a time
> > server due to transient router or internet problems.
>
> Yes, obviously that is the cause. It is a forseeable cause though and
> one should not expect the OS to fail so miserably. Why can we not
> check the date during !Boot and if it is before the latest time known
> in a previous session, then to force it to at east that time and date
> immediately?
Currently we simply have a file in !Boot that checks for a system date of
1970 and warns the user not to run Messenger without fixing the date stamps
on any downloaded files first....
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