FYI: Working on a implementation for the real time clock

[burti]

As far as I noticed there is no implementation for the real time clock of mindsensors for Lejos. I'm working on that. Reading the time and date from the RTC works fine yet.
Writing the time and date to the RTC and changing the time periode from 24h to am/pm and vice/versa isn't supported by my implementation yet though. (I haven't programmed it

Moreover I want to introduce a date-time class names RTCDateTime class which can only represent the possible values of the RTC.
My implementation shall only work with that to ensure facing valid date and time values. (Writing invalid into the RTC may result in unknown behaviour !).
There will be routines to transform it into a Date instance and vice versa of course.
I will tell you as as soon as it is ready to be used.

[lawrie]

If you post your implementation here or send it to me at lawrie.griffiths@ntlworld.com, I will add it to leJOS.

[rsdavis]

Does lejos contain the software to read/write the mindsensors real-time clock? I saw post here for a working implementation but do not see it in lejos.

[bbagnall]

Does lejos contain the software to read/write the mindsensors real-time clock? I saw post here for a working implementation but do not see it in lejos.

It doesn't look like we have this class in subversion. I have one of these sensors so maybe I'll give it a try. We also have a Date class that was programmed by Juan Antonio, so that should come in handy for parsing time data from this.

It would be neat if every time you uploaded code from your PC it would update the system clock. GPS devices would also be capable of updating the clock (I think this was Juan's initial reason for adding Date to the API). I'll let you know when I have something with the sensor.

[bbagnall]

I just noticed we have lejos.nxt.addon.NCTrtc. That makes things easy! I've renamed it RealTimeClock in subversion so that it will be easier to discover.