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Re: The Clock on the NeXT

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From: Lily Liou
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:07
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In article <1993Jan12.170329.493@athena.mit.edu> jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw) writes:
>I've just got back for several weeks away to find that my NeXT had lost about 5
>minutes, mesurements since sugest its loosing about 10 to 15 seconds a day, is
>this normal...do other people have this problem?  Does anyone know what the
>accuracy of the clock is suppost to be?
>
>For information I'm running a NeXT colour Turbo under NS 2.1.

I find that my machine has this problem also.  Although I have not
made a precise measurement, since I can't be sure that my other
time peices are not variable on a per day basis, I have noticed
that every 2 or 3 weeks or so, I am late to a meeting if I rely on
my NeXT clock.  I then reset it about 5 minutes, also.

Perhaps this problem is why someone has developed software that
keeps an eye on the clock by using your modem to essentially
dial a time standard every now and then. (I think I read about this
recently in comp.sys.next.misc).

Anyone know what causes this problem and is the clock slow for all
machines with clock error?

I am running a NeXTstation Turbo (33MHz, NS2.2).

-Lily Liou
lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
NeXTmail welcome :-)
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