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- From: lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Clock on the NeXT
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- Date: 13 Jan 93 04:07:42 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.170329.493@athena.mit.edu>
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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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