Bitcoin Forum
April 30, 2024, 11:58:51 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: cgminer showing 1969-12-31 timestamp  (Read 239 times)
9code7 (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 12
Merit: 0


View Profile
February 05, 2020, 08:49:11 PM
 #1

I'm running the latest version of cgminer on Ubuntu 18.04.03.

The output of timedatectl is:

Code:
Local time: Wed 2020-02-05 15:46:13 EST
Universal time: Wed 2020-02-05 20:46:13 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2020-02-05 20:46:13
Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
RTC in local TZ: no

However, when I run cgminer, it shows the starting date as 1969-12-31.

Will this affect my mining (BTC solo mining)? If so, how can i correct this?
1714521531
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714521531

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714521531
Reply with quote  #2

1714521531
Report to moderator
You get merit points when someone likes your post enough to give you some. And for every 2 merit points you receive, you can send 1 merit point to someone else!
Advertised sites are not endorsed by the Bitcoin Forum. They may be unsafe, untrustworthy, or illegal in your jurisdiction.
1714521531
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1714521531

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1714521531
Reply with quote  #2

1714521531
Report to moderator
PassThePopcorn
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 465
Merit: 309


View Profile
February 05, 2020, 09:49:28 PM
Last edit: February 06, 2020, 12:52:48 AM by frodocooper
 #2

Unless you're solo mining block errupters or other USB miners (which are way outdated), Ubuntu won't do much for you.

If you are using GPU's head over to the alt coin section.

If you are using really old hardware, don't expect them to do much for you.

And to answer your question, it shouldn't matter what time the program displays.
kano
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 4480
Merit: 1800


Linux since 1997 RedHat 4


View Profile
February 05, 2020, 11:09:58 PM
Merited by NotFuzzyWarm (1)
 #3

It's showing that it had no time source it could connect to and started mining at time epoch = 0

0 is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

So since yaw behind UTC (-5) it will display earlier than that to start with.

The start time is stored, not changed when the clock changes, so it wont change unless you restart cgminer after the clock is corrected.

Pool: https://kano.is - low 0.5% fee PPLNS 3 Days - Most reliable Solo with ONLY 0.5% fee   Bitcointalk thread: Forum
Discord support invite at https://kano.is/ Majority developer of the ckpool code - k for kano
The ONLY active original developer of cgminer. Original master git: https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer
9code7 (OP)
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 12
Merit: 0


View Profile
February 06, 2020, 04:05:30 PM
 #4

Thanks!
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!