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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: MICHAEL J. MAHON
date: 2018-06-14 15:25:00
subject: Re: RTC Questions

Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 06:04:04 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:
>
>> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>> Agreed - you only need a hardware RTC if your RPi isn't usually
>>> connected to the 'net.
>>
>> He gave a reason.
>
> Fair enough - I'd have put a delay in the WeeWX startup.

Exactly.

Additional money, power, size, complexity in order to save a few seconds
when WeeWX is (rarely) restarted is a poor tradeoff.

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