Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!eagle!jtreworgy
From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A500 clock gone senile
Message-ID: <457@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 14:16:14 GMT
References: <10619@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <10619@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rademach@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Simon Rademacher) writes:
> 
> I've seen people mention clock problems before, but have not seen this one.
> 
> About once every month (but for a while there, about once a week) my internal
> clock (on the A501) will return the wrong date/time.  It is always a legit
> value and can be in the past or future.  I have no problems resetting and
> saving it but I'm wondering what's causing it.  Could it just be an errant
> program or might it be a more serious hardware problem (like the battery)?
> 

I have found that some programs (usually games that take over the system) mess
up the clock. On my computer, I made the startup sequence show the time right
away so that I could see if it had been munged. Next time your clock is messed
up, try fixing it & using whatever piece of software you had just used.

-- 
James A. Treworgy 
jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu   
jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET