Hi,FYI, A2osX includes an NTPDATE command that will get the date from time servers and can even be run as a daemon process to constantly update the time for ProDOS file creation/access.
I created an NTP client for the A2 quite some time ago. However, so
far it was more or less just a demo. Now I added a variant that is
actually useful :-)
If you own an enhanced //e with an Ethernet card but without a
realtime clock, you can integrate the new DATE65.SYSTEM into your
ProDOS 8 boot process. It sets the ProDOS 8 time to midnight of the
current day.
Demo video: https://youtu.be/LoQANrqe53I
More details: https://github.com/cc65/ip65/wiki/Date65
Source code: https://github.com/cc65/ip65/blob/master/apps/date65.c
Regards,
Oliver
Hi,
I created an NTP client for the A2 quite some time ago. However, so
far it was more or less just a demo. Now I added a variant that is
actually useful :-)
If you own an enhanced //e with an Ethernet card but without a
realtime clock, you can integrate the new DATE65.SYSTEM into your
ProDOS 8 boot process. It sets the ProDOS 8 time to midnight of the
current day.
Very cool - great integration of ideas! That's why this stuff just
never gets old.
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