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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: XT/AT clock drift - is there stable clock somewhere?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.230010.5607@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:00:10 GMT
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- bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
-
- >jrl1@kepler.unh.edu (John R Labonte) writes:
- >:
- >: Does anyone know where I can get an accurate internal clock or
- >: maybe some other solution.
-
- >Try RITM11.ZIP found on wuarchive.wuslt.edu:/mirrors/msdos/sysutl
- >Basically, it's a TSR that checks the hardware clock time every
- >4 seconds, and calculates and sets the proper system time. According
- >to the .TXT: "It should be easy to achieve a worst-case error of less
- >than 0.5 seconds per day and under good conditions, less that 0.5
- >seconds per week; typical results are much better".
-
- As I recall, he was dealing with an XT. XTs don't *have* a hardware
- clock!
-
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