No its not just you there is something wrong with the way the pogoplug handles the dates. Even when i just moved a file from one HDD to another without the PC it changes the dates.

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Since I have had so much trouble with the date /time on my pogoplug I thought I would share what I have done to get them to keep accurate time and survive a reboot. Actually it will set the time to the government's NIST Internet Time Service using an ntp client and your pogoplug clock will display time per your time zone and honor daylight savings time. This will make minimal changes to your pogoplug (no optware needed). I have successfully used this on version 3 & series 4 pogoplugs.

This assumes you are connected to the internet, can log into your pogoplug with putty (SSH) as root and no other changes have been made to /etc/init.d/rcS or /etc/profile.

You can copy and past to make the script date.sh, manually execute one line at a time or download this script by doing the following:

cd /var
wget http://206.253.164.68/date.sh
chmod 0755 date.sh
./date.sh
(you still need to edit for your timezone - Pacific is default)



date.sh

#!/bin/sh
cd /var
wget http://206.253.164.68/ntp
chmod 0755 ntp
mount -o rw,remount /
cp /var/ntp /usr/bin/ntp
cp /etc/init.d/rcS /etc/init.d/rcS.org
echo "/usr/bin/ntp -h time.nist.gov -s" >> /etc/init.d/rcS
echo "########## /etc/init.d/rcS ################"
cat /etc/init.d/rcS
# un-comment your timezone
# echo "export TZ=EST+5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2" >> /etc/profile
# echo "export TZ=CST+6CDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2" >> /etc/profile
# echo "export TZ=MST+7MDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2" >> /etc/profile
echo "export TZ=PST+8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2" >> /etc/profile
echo "########## /etc/profile ####################"
cat /etc/profile
mount -o ro,remount /
That's it. Be sure /etc/init.d/rcS is good before you reboot. To start over or redo just:

mount-o rw,remount /
cp /etc/init.d/rcS.org /etc/init.d/rcS
rm /etc/profile
Everything in the /var directory will be deleted when you reboot.

What we are doing is adding one line to your startup file /etc/init.d/rcS (usr/bin/ntp -h time.nist.gov -s) and creating /etc/profile with the line: export TZ=PST+8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2 If you do this by running the script be sure to run it only once to keep from adding multiple lines. If you need to run it again, be sure to restore the original rcS.org file and delete /etc/profile.

-Sarha

Fixed so far by doing this:

connect to pogoplug via ssh and type the command below filling in the correct time and date manually

busybox date -s YYYY.MM.DD-hh:mm[:ss]

So, that's
busybox date -s 2012.01.27-23:11 without seconds or
busybox date -s 2012.01.27-23:11:25 with seconds.