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ropg / ezTime

ezTime — pronounced "Easy Time" — is a very easy to use Arduino time and date library that provides NTP network time lookups, extensive timezone support, formatted time and date strings, user events, millisecond precision and more.
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Question: ezTime::setTime() and Arduino::configTime() not the same #35

Closed ksaye closed 5 years ago

ksaye commented 5 years ago

While I love ezTime, I am confused how differently it works on an ESP8266 vs the configTime().

While writing in Arduino on a NodeMCU, I falsely assumed that calling ezTime::setTime() would set the system time that the Azure IoT Client SDK would honor. I still had to call the configTime() which grabbed from an NTP service.

From a core perspective, what is the difference between Arduino.h::configTime() and setTime()?

ropg commented 5 years ago

configTime is Espressiv-specific, and not available on all Arduino hardware, whereas ezTime is. Also the time library on ESPs is not as full-featured (although it does support a timezone as well as NTP, so it may well be enough for you.)

khawajamechatronics commented 4 years ago

@ropg I am having same issue, can anything be done to make it compatible?

ropg commented 4 years ago

configTime is ESP specific. Use it if you like, it does (sort of) the same thing as ezTime. You may not need both, they are independent.

khawajamechatronics commented 4 years ago

I have got it working somehow, we only can use UTC time with SDK and I had to minus some seconds to get it work.