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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: problems with clock?
Message-ID: <C4q062.4Iv@veda.is>
Date: 30 Mar 93 21:10:49 GMT
References: <C4pqxv.2Jq@kithrup.com>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>I've noticed that my machine seems to have a lot of problems with
>the clock.  Namely, it gains (or loses) a *lot* of time, but only
>occassionally.

I've yet to see a PC computer that does not continually lose time in the
BIOS clock. I've never seen one gain steadily but they might also exist.
If 386bsd manages to keep time more accurately than and independently from
the BIOS clock, sudden jumps in time would occur at reboots since the time
is initialised from the BIOS clock.

Maybe it has nothing to do with this.

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Adam David (adam@veda.is)