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.