sync date to an RTC without hwclock

[Ronny Nilsson]

Hi James
A quick workaround for you might be to use and old mobile phone as a WiFi 
accesspoint. Share Internet access for the Pi via tethering. Otherwise, can 
you provide additional technical information? What RTC model have you added 
and how is it connected? By what pins? I suspect you may need to define your 
setup via Device Tree to inform the OS. If you are unsure of what Nard 
version you are running; check the "/etc/release" file	 in the target.

Cool thing with an art installation. Is there any photos of the project? What 
are the Pi doing?

/Ronny


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> I have a NARD device out in the wild that lacks internet connectivity and
> needs to have the RTC updated. Normally this thing (an art installation) is
> connected to wifi, and just uses NTP - but this is a special temporary set
> up without wifi.
>
> It appears the base NARD SDK (v1.0, I think) has busybox set up without
> hwclock, so I'm wondering if there's another standardized way to sync the
> date to the RTC? I'd like to avoid recompiling and shipping out an image
> just to add hwclock to busybox. Any ideas?