Path: utzoo!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!mlord
From: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: set system clock?
Message-ID: <264@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:00:08 GMT
References: <19500034@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <2518F946.23692@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: mlord@bmers58.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2518F946.23692@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>In article <19500034@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>$it or not, but it keeps going), and I am trying to reset the system clock.
>$The TIME command allows me to reset it for DOS (3.0) so as long as I leave
>$the machine on I'm o.k., but when I turn it off, it comes back up with the
>$same crummy incorrect time.  What's the trick to setting the actual hardware

>   But seriously, the DATE and TIME commands only affect DOS's clock, and
>not the hardware clock available on ATs and higher (and as an add-in for

Or use DOS 3.3 or higher, which actually *does* update the real CMOS clock
when setting the time/date with the DOS commands.

That's how I do it.  Works fine.

-Mark