[Voyage-linux] ALIX 2d13 hardware clock

[Rainer Stratmann]

 On Friday 18 October 2013 14:56:01 you wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having problems with the hardware clock when using ALIX 2d13 boards
> with Voyage 0.9.1.  The date isn't being saved to the clock on shutdown:
> 
> [info] Saving the system clock.
> hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
> hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an
> access method.
> 
> 
> calling "hwclock" doesn't work -

sudo hwclock --directisa --systohc

will work after setting the new time with for example 'date -s 13:10:00'

systohc means system clock to hardware clock or similar

> hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
> hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an
> access method.
> 
> 
> I've read another post where the suggestion is to use:
> 
> hwclock --directisa
> 
> 
> but I'm not sure how to fix this in the startup scripts, nor what the
> underlying problem is that is causing "hwclock" without parameters to
> function correctly.
> 
> Please can someone explain what's going wrong here ?
> 
> Dan