The first run wizard gives you the opportunity to set the time correctly. If one doesn't do this then the scripts to download and install a browser might not work and also the browsers won't work properly for https sites. You'll get false (and scary) warnings about invalid certificates.
True, but this only happens when your computer time is badly skewed (as in, a few years behind). Situation like this usually only happens if your computer's RTC has gone dead. This is not a common situation.
Setting the time via first-run wizard is not the way to fix this; I have other solutions for in from the days of FatdogArm (because most ARM boards don't come with RTC) but I didn't carry it forward in Fatdog64 since I don't think it would ever be needed.
Anyway, Fatdog Quick-setup won't fix this because it only offers to set the "timezone" and not the system time itself.
On another note, It would be nice if the ISO had some kind of file in it (maybe a readme) that simply give the version of fatdog64.
Yes, added for next release.
@step: I didn't realise that s243a was asking about Fatdog64. He was involved in so many different projects, I thought he was asking a generic question about how to sync time with Internet time servers for use with his other projects
It also won't let me sync to a ext4 save file...at least I don't think it will. Perhaps I can with one of the hacks but if I do so I'd want to do a selective sync. Anyway, before trying one of the hacks, I'm going to give Maestral a try.
Edit: It doesn't seem to work for me:
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pip3 install maestral
pip3 install pyqt5
LD_LIBRARY_PATH= maestral gui
Shows me the maestral setup screen. I didn't go further since I don't have dropbox account.
The Fatdog's built-in Qt5 interferes with PyQt5's included Qt5 libs. Hence the need to remove it from LD_LIBRARY_PATH. We probably should build Fatdog's own copy of PyQt5 (we already have it for pyhon2, we need to do it for Python3).
EDIT: I've built python3-pyqt5. If you install this from gslapt (instead of "pip3 install pyqt5") then you don't need to specify LD_LIBRARY_PATH= and can type "maestral gui" to launch it directly.
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