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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!venkat From: venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat) Subject: Time-of-the-day clock question ! Message-ID: <Bw0pGt.AHz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:50:51 GMT Keywords: clock Lines: 22 Hi folks, I have a question regarding the time-of-the-day clock on the motherboard. My AT's clock runs a day behind if the machine is left powered-on for over two consecutive midnights (this is a familiar problem in the pc world, right ?). Well, I run TSR's when I use DOS to take care of this problem but is there a fix in 386BSD ? I find that the system date falls behind by a day (in the situation described above) - I have to manually reset the date. One possible solution (I *haven't* tried it yet - just thought of it now !) would be to run a cron job and every two days increment the date value and reset the date... Any ideas ? My machine - is a 386/25Mhz AT - has 4MB RAM/ 125 MB HD - can't even keep the time right :-) Venkat