How can I set the date / time?

[pete_l]

I an moving some code from an ESP8266 to an ESP32.
I am using the Arduino IDE
I wish to set an arbitrary date and time

In the ESP8266 code I can use a library function called setTime(). However this doesn't exist in the ESP32 version of the libraries.
There is an example in the Expressif code that uses the Unix-y settimeofday(&tv, &tz) function. However this example requires a header file called coredecls.h that does not appear on the code base I installed with the ESP32 Arduino environment.

What do you do to set the time without using NTP?

with thanks!

[avdalimov14]

What do you do to set the time without using NTP?

I would like to join this question.

[WiFive]

Did you try

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#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

[avdalimov14]

Yes, but I couldn't figure out what the time val that I should put in settimeofday?

Let's assume I want to update it to 18 June 2018 (now it is on his release data - default), How should I make it?

[WiFive]

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/bl ... #L218-L228

[snahmad75]

Once you set date and time using

settimeofday

How I can add seconds since boot up get from esp_timer_get_time in seconds.

I guess once you bootup. you lost your date and time. you need to save into nvs or file and on bootup. I need to set it again
using settimeofday and add boot time seconds to it before creation new files to get almost accurate time stamp for files.

I don't have access to internet to get clock time. I pass data time via HTTP when ever I upgrade my firmware.
Some logs files get created while firmware is running.


I set my my current system date/time on startup

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struct tm tm;

    tm.tm_year = 2018 - 1900;

    tm.tm_mon = 10;

    tm.tm_mday = 15;

    tm.tm_hour = 14;

    tm.tm_min = 10;

    tm.tm_sec = 10;

    time_t t = mktime(&tm);

    printf("Setting time: %s", asctime(&tm));

    struct timeval now = { .tv_sec = t };

    settimeofday(&now, NULL);

then I obtain later . which is fine. but file gets created with time stamp of 1980. any idea?

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		time_t now = time(0);

		// Convert now to tm struct for local timezone

		tm* localtm = localtime(&now);

		printf("The local date and time is: %s", asctime(localtm));