My Raspberries are expanded with DS3231 I2C realtime clock. It’s a very simple solution, as only required external component is a backup battery (crystal is integrated into the chip!). And it’s also claimed to be very accurate Image may be NSFW.
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By default, Raspbian installation uses “fake hwclock” to read previously stored date/time from file just before clock is synced by NTP client. We’re going to switch to “full” hwclock, first ensuring that our RTC is seen by kernel.
First, modify /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to initialize clock’s i2c device.
Create RTC initialization function:
init_rtc_device()
{
[ -e /dev/rtc0 ] && return 0;
# load i2c and RTC kernel modules
modprobe i2c-dev
modprobe rtc-ds1307
# iterate over every i2c bus as we're supporting Raspberry Pi rev. 1 and 2
# (different I2C busses on GPIO header!)
for bus in $(ls -d /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-*);
do
echo ds1307 0x68 >> $bus/new_device;
if [ -e /dev/rtc0 ];
then
log_action_msg "RTC found on bus `cat $bus/name`";
break; # RTC found, bail out of the loop
else
echo 0x68 >> $bus/delete_device
fi
done
}
Call it from the “start” section.
We also have to comment out/remove udev check as our RTC won’t be handled by it.
... init_rtc_device # Raspberry Pi doesn't have udev detectable RTC # if [ -d /run/udev ] || [ -d /dev/.udev ]; then # return 0 # fi ...
Next, reboot and check if /dev/rtc0 is present and/or “hwclock -r” successfully gets time from RTC.
If everything seems working OK, our RasPi will get proper time even without network connectivity or with ntp client disabled.
We can now disable fake-hwclock from running:
# update-rc.d fake-hwclock remove
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