Thread: Clock resets to 1970 on power off!
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Old 09-05-2013, 10:14 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
It's possible that Kobo limits the maximum time change on a NTP sync. We used to have issues with a couple of Unix servers that reset to 1970-Jan-01 on an extended power outage. The NTP daemon could only correct the real time clock by plus/minus 4 hours on a sync cycle so a maximum correction of 16 hours per day with our 4 NTP syncs per 24 hours. Oddly, the operating system time and date would display the current time/date after the first sync but on a restart, the hardware clock would revert to a time and date depending on how many time sync cycles had occurred.

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Maybe, but every time I intentionally set my clock back (to extend a library book that I don't finish on time ) and forget to reset it, connecting to the wifi only corrects it while I'm actually connected. Then it reverts to what I set it to.
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