How to use the calendar_example to extract the current time

[codebreaker176]

How to extract the current time from the calendar_example, i am not clear with the procedure

[codebreaker176]

Yes works now, I missed that part

Thanks a lot for your support!

[Adeel]

Hi Tobjorn,

Is it possible to reproduce your code to use it for the nrf9160 device. I need a close application to this but with nrf9160 and could not find any examples for this calendar mode type application. Any help for this would be great .

[ovrebekk]

Hi Adeel 

Anything is possible, but I am not sure how much sense it makes to adapt the calendar example when the date_time library is available in NCS/Zephyr. 

I modified the example I shared earlier to set up a standard Zephyr timer, and use that to update the timestamp in a fashion similar to the calendar example. 

The difference is that it uses the date_time library to get the time initially, and then defaults to using a timer afterwards to reduce the need of calling date_time repeatedly. 

Please have a look at the updated example and see if it gets you closer to what you need:
https://github.com/too1/mqtt_w_date_time

Best regards
Torbjørn

[Adeel]

Hi Tobjorn,

Thanks, this is a perfect example to work on now. 

I just had to ask a question which was related to time synchronization. 

 

I see that the real time differs by 2 hrs : 14:13 to 16:13 . Just wanted to know if this could be fixed by tinkering with the values. This would be the perfect time stamp for my usage :).

Regards,

Adeel.

[Adeel]

sorry , I meant 16:12 to 18:12. I see a gap of 2 hrs. Just needed a heads up on how to calibrate it :).