[comp.sys.ibm.pc] The old ATT PC6300 clock problem revisited - help needed.

brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) (07/27/90)

I have a AT&T PC6300 running (AT&T) DOS 3.3. I have heard various
and sundry horror stories about malfunctions with the time of day clock
but must admit that I haven't experienced any of these - at least not
until now!! 

	Up to now, all my programs have worked fine, excecuting the
"time" command works etc. The problem is an accounting program called
DacEasy. When invoked, it comes up with the correct date but wrong time.
Their customer service wasn't any help since all they said was that it
works on their machine and, to be fair to them, the time display does
work on a '386 clone that I tried. Would someone hazard a guess as to 
why this doesn't work and whether there is anything that I can do about
it. It is unlikely that DacEasy will modify their program to accomodate
the PC6300 so a general purpose solution would be preferred.

Thanks in advance,
-Graham Brand (brand@janus.berkeley.edu)

aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) (07/28/90)

brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) writes:

> stuff about AT&T clock being off in some programs.

There is a program called ATTCLKFX or some such which my mom got thru the
PCTools people.  There is also an explanation of why the clock is off.

I don't remember all the details (I'm at home with my clone), but if the
documentation seems to allow it, I'll try and post it later today when I'm
at my Mom's.  I'll PAK it using 2.10, cuz I don't like PK* and SEAARC 
just isn't as good.  PAK210.EXE is available by anonymous ftp at various
sites, including (I'm pretty sure) the simtel20 site (26.2.0.74).

My Mom's AT&T 6300 is for sale, but since this isn't the group for it, I'll
post details to misc.forsale.computers later on. 
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