multi@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Chuan Su Kuan) (08/31/89)
I rarely use my real time clock, that is until last night. I recently acquired a hard drive, and am now in a process of copy/rearranging/managing files on the drive. Last night (evening..well) I installed the newest version of qmouse, and choose the option to display system clock on the screen. Since the clock had not been invoked in a long while, I suspect it would be a bit off from the first time I set it on the day when I first got the system about a year ago. To my suprise, the clock was almost 2 monthes off. O.K. So there was this thounder storm a few monthes back, maybe it had confused the clock a little. I reset the system according to the standard procedure of DATE xxxxxxxxx and SETCLOCK OPT SAVE to correct the clock. About 2 hours later, my sister came in my room (yes, I am a college student, and yes, I am still live with my parents... after all, my house is only 30 min. drive from school ;-]) and asked about the time. I told her 6:30PM. "6:30PM? ARE YOU SURE?" Sure I am sure, after all, I adjusted my clock only 2 hours ago. She grabed my watch, which I had used earlier to set the real time clock, and pointed it out to me, it said "7:xxPM." So my real time clock does not appear to funtion too well...? Well, I set the time again, with the standard procedure, again - and seperately with the commands that came with WB1.2 and WB1.3 respectively(I recalled someone memtion something about setclock not being function correctly on WB1.3, I might be wrong, but I didn't want to take the chances). The results? The real time clock alway reset itself back to the time prior to when I install the new qmouse each time I reboot the machine. I don't know. The self-reseting of the clock might be something in the startup sequence which I didn't really get the chance to check last night. However, the evident is ironic that my clock is not really doing its job .. in real time. Now, the question: does anyone has a simular problem, or am I doing something foolish. I certainly don't feel like taking my clock apart for examination nor spend $$$ getting a new one. And NO it is not likely that the battery is running low, I got the clock - integrated with the memory expension - a year ago in original pkg and everything. Thanks in advence for any reply, info. (reply in E-Mail is prefered, thank you) -K P.S. Sorry for taking up the bandwidth for my small problem.