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10 Interface Function Test Demos

11.14 RTC Test

Power adapter and Orin main unit.

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Test Equipment

Power adapter and Orin main unit.

Test Objective

Test the hardware RTC circuitry.

Test Procedure

  1. Disable Wi-Fi and the wired network connection.

  2. Enter the commands below to set the RTC time.

Enter the following command to become the superuser.

 sudo su

Enter the commands to set the date and time parameters.

date -s 2022/10/27
date -s 16:59 
hwclock -w

  1. Power-cycle the device and check whether the time has changed by a reasonable amount.

  2. The results above are obtained with the network disabled. If the network is enabled, the time will be synchronized with an NTP server, making the test inaccurate.