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munky261
04-08-2007, 03:33 AM
does anyone know of anyway to make the clock display ...month/day/year instead of day/month/year.... that drives me nuts lol
Tabster
04-08-2007, 12:01 PM
what Regional Settings have you selected? I have English (USA) and it shows as mm/dd/yyyy

go to Clock - Tools - Regional Settings
munky261
04-08-2007, 01:22 PM
major brain fart ... lol i could have sworn i looked at that b4 tho thanks:)
EvoDevo
10-30-2007, 10:30 AM
(Same title, different topic) I believe the time and date stored in the N800 are set by the user with no "automatic" updating.

Is there a way to link the clock in the N800 to a site like NIST (http://nist.time.gov) and have the internal clock updated without user intervention?
frasej
10-30-2007, 11:19 AM
I thought I saw an nntp program, but I can't remember what it was called.
rone
10-30-2007, 01:28 PM
I use ntpdate

http://downloads.maemo.org/product/ntpdate/

I then issue this command to update the hardware clock

/mnt/initfs/usr/bin/retutime --rtc-from-system
EvoDevo
11-01-2007, 07:47 AM
ntpdate appears to be incompatible with my OS version, OS2007.
rone
11-01-2007, 08:25 AM
Sorry, Try this one. I am using this on my 770 with 2007he installed.

http://www.janerob.com/rob/n800/
EvoDevo
11-01-2007, 11:35 AM
Thanks. That version of ntpdate installed (although I don't know where). Now I have a second problem: I have no idea how to get to the CLI on an N800. (It's been many years since I used a Unix machine, and that was only briefly.)

I gather I need the CLI to get the system time and date updated with ntpdate.
TA-t3
11-01-2007, 11:52 AM
CLI: Install osso-xterm.
If you want to set the date you may also need to install 'becomeroot'.

If you get any trouble with ntpdate there's also the rdate alternative:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=88709&postcount=1


I may change a future version of rdate to allow you to change the system time without having to be root, if that's desirable.
EvoDevo
11-01-2007, 12:59 PM
CLI: Install osso-xterm.
If you want to set the date you may also need to install 'becomeroot'.

Thank you, TA-t3. I got it and installed it, and I can now get to a command line. But you are right that I need to become the root. From where do I get/install "becomeroot"
rone
11-01-2007, 01:11 PM
I use these instruction. I find a lot of good info in this wiki.


http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowTo_EASILY_BecomeRoot
TA-t3
11-02-2007, 05:39 AM
The wiki instructions seem to be slightly outdated.. I would try to update it, but I can't seem to log in - it wants my garage login but that doesn't work (but it does work on garage.. go figure.)

Anyway, for the N800 you use

http://eko.one.pl/maemo
Distribution bora
Component user

and that's it.