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- From: chmr@fstgds01 (Christoph Robitschko)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] happy new year
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- References: <C0AFoE.2GB@moxie.hou.tx.us>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 10:43:39 GMT
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- In article <C0AFoE.2GB@moxie.hou.tx.us> Greg Hackney (hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us) wrote:
- :> However, when setting the date under 386BSD, the onboard computer clock does
- :> not seem to get updated. A reboot reverts back to it's idea of time.
- :> Could this be the problem?
- :>
- I have rewritten the clock routines, adding one to write the time back to
- the CMOS. I wrote this a few months ago, but did not release it, because
- it also contains some (probably) non-portable code to automatically
- write Time-zone information along with the time to the CMOS. This makes
- it possible for DOS and 386bsd to (nearly) always have the correct time,
- even if you have DST. Because this code uses the ALARM registers of
- the CMOS clock, it might collide with some DOS applications (which one ?),
- and so is only enabled with a config option.
-
- I will clean it up and post it in a few days.
-
-
- Christoph
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