Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!well!sjm
From: sjm@well.UUCP (Stephen Moehle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A fast system clock
Keywords: fast clock
Message-ID: <6545@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 88 00:51:46 GMT
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    I must be losing my mind.  I have just noticed that the operating system
clock is %15 fast.  To be clear, I am not talking about the battery backed
clock (which is fine), but about the operating system's sense of time, i.e 
the time given by the "date" command.  I cannot for the life of me tell if
this has just happened, or whether I haven't noticed.

    What makes this strange, at least to me, is that Delay() seems to know what
the real time is.  I wrote a program that does nothing but call Delay(60L*50L)
and I timed it using a stop watch to take exactly one minute.  Can anyone
explain why the time is running %15 fast and yet Delay() is exactly right?
And I suppose somewhat more importantly, how can I fix my machine?  Running
fast by %15 is a bit much.  Thanks.

Stephe
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