Reading from the CMOS clock

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From: Nick Smith
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 10:41

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I'm having a little trouble with some code I'm writing at the moment:

For various essential reasons, I have to turn off interrupts for upto
several minutes at a time. What I *want* to do, is preserve the real time
clock (I know how long I will have interrupts disabled exactly)

I know that the soft copy of the realtime clock will halt during this period,
but I felt sure that the CMOS (hardware) clock, which after all works when
the machine is switched off, would continue happily with no interrupts ...

I am using OS_Word,14,1 which claims to read the real time from CMOS clock in
BCD (ug) format. Thing is, it contains the same value before & after the
code with no ints. has been called.

So what am I doing wrong ???!
--
Nick Smith, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.  %$%  Email: nas20@uk.ac.cam.phx
sig quote wanted - must be under guarantee.   $%$  --- Usual disclaimer. ---

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