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Article #1602Re: The Clock on the NeXT
From: Lily Liou
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:07
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!sdcc12!sdcc3!lliou From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: The Clock on the NeXT Message-ID: <43424@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: 13 Jan 93 04:07:42 GMT References: <1993Jan12.170329.493@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@sdcc12.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: sdcc3.ucsd.edu