>>>  SETTING Time/TIMEZONE (will update date and time at each router reboot)
    1- echo "EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00" > /etc/TZ                  (Set your TimeZone)
    2- vim /etc/init.d/timedate
        |-->
            #!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
            START=90
            start() {
                rdate -s <NTP Server Address>
                }
    3- chmod 755 /etc/init.d/timedate
    4- /etc/init.d/timedate enable
    5- reboot

I tried this, but when I try to enable it I get a message that says it does not exist.

Que pasa? I included the START string and entered the date query into the function exactly as above.

Just so everyone knows, it's not the string presented above to enable.

It's actually:

/etc/rc.common /etc/init.d/timedate enable

(Last edited by napierzaza on 3 Aug 2007, 20:35)

/etc/init.d/timedate:

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=90

start() {
        rdate -s <NTP Server Address>
}

/etc/init.d/timedate start
/etc/init.d/timedate enable

I don't know if you're version works, mine does I believe, the first example doesn't. Does mine not work or are you just posting a similar fix?

in fact your example returns the same error I've been getting

root@openwrt:~# /etc/init.d/timedate start
-ash: /etc/init.d/timedate: not found
root@ openwrt:~# /etc/init.d/timedate enable
-ash: /etc/init.d/timedate: not found
root@ openwrt:~#

(Last edited by napierzaza on 4 Aug 2007, 05:30)

Actually, though mine gives no error, it also does not set the time.

Also using the below is actually creating the files in the rc.d directory.
/etc/rc.common /etc/init.d/timedate enable

(Last edited by napierzaza on 4 Aug 2007, 15:19)

Alas, according to logread it's still not working:

Dec 31 19:00:31 openwrt user.info : /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/init.d/rcS: 8: /etc/rc.d/S90timedate: not found

My guess is that the boot up script is not actually wrapping the rc.common with the cron script. And that NOT incorporating the command into a function will cause it to function.

I find it really strange that I'm the only one getthing this, has anyone else tried this on the WRT54GS or WRT54G bin image? Because I am completely following the above directions and getting nowhere.

I don't know what to say... The directions above work for me so this is why I posted this documentation here..... It doesn't matter what version of router you have. Are you using Kamikaze 7.06? version 7.07 also work fine.

I want to use fr.pool.ntp.org to sync time but doesn't work. can you give an example valid server adress ?
btw, fr.pool.ntp.org works with ntpclient or windows time sync ...
thx!

I'd really suggest installing/using the ntpclient package and make use of UCI (/etc/config/ntpclient). Of course, you still have to set the timezone in /etc/TZ manually. ntpclient is more easy to sync the time...

(Last edited by forum2006 on 10 Aug 2007, 09:38)

I am using Kamikaze 7.07
It might somehow be significant in terms of what hardware, because maybe the image built for 2.4 broadcoms is broken.

I don't think you're making it up. But I'm making very certain that I follow your directions and they are just giving me errors

(Last edited by napierzaza on 10 Aug 2007, 20:19)

Try making it executable:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/timedate
/etc/init.d/timedate enable

If you run "ls -l /etc/init.d" you'll see that the scripts there all have the "x" bits set.  New scripts need that bit set, too.

rdate fails for me, I don't care why.  So I use nptclient instead.  Also, I have combined the methods above (on this page) with some methods from another page.

At boot, I use the ntp.org pool, and set the clock directly (without the -l option, therefore not using the adjtimex(2) call -- see the ntpclient author's site for more information about using the -l option.)

/etc/init.d/clockset:  (Remember to run ntpclient it in the background, in case it hangs.)

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=90

start() {
        /usr/sbin/ntpclient -sh us.pool.ntp.org &
}

Then I do the enable command:      root@wrt:/etc/# /etc/init.d/clockset enable
____________________

That should do to initially set the clock on boot, provided upstream connection to the ntp pool servers.  However, I also want to synchronize the clock to my LAN.  I already have a machine (simply "lan-time" here) which is a ntp server. So...

/usr/local/timesync.sh:  (Remember to run ntpclient it in the background, in case it hangs.)

#/bin/sh
/usr/bin/killall ntpclient > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
/usr/sbin/ntpclient -s -l -h lan-time &

root's crontab:

*/30  * * * *   /usr/local/timesync.sh

These parts serve to keep the time synchronized with the rest of my lan.

-- Nate

EDIT:  Changed */10 to */30 in root's crontab.  Checking every 10min is just ... I like 30 better.

(Last edited by arfyness on 6 Apr 2009, 23:18)