what is the best way to manage time ?

RE: what is the best way to manage time ?

Einar Thorsrud — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:36:14 GMT

Hi,

You can for example do the following:

Use a repeated app timer instance to wake up at least every time the RTC overflows.
In the app timer timeout handler, you get the current RTC value using app_timer_cnt_get() and update a large variable holding elapsed time (ticks).
Whenever you want to get the time and date, first read the current RTC value using app_timer_cnt_get() to get it up to date, and then calculate the actual time and date in SW. For this to work, you must have set the time at some point, so that you know the time and date that correspond to the timer ticks you have stored. The SW also need to implement a calendar so that it handles leap years and leap seconds etc.

RE: what is the best way to manage time ?

vohra alihussain — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:20:35 GMT

will u explain in detail?

RE: what is the best way to manage time ?

cliclem — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:35:32 GMT

Ok tank you

RE: what is the best way to manage time ?

Wojtek — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:08:25 GMT

What I do to keep up time, is wake up at least once per RTC overflow interval, take value from it, calculate seconds passed since previous reading and add them to uint32_t variable used to store passing time. Also, i store exact number of ticks to avoid error accumulation... It is quite accurate that way.