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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ZEOS Computers
Message-ID: <6771@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 89 13:37:34 GMT
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In article <111700165@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> dgl00215@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
}My only outstanding complaint is that my system clock is SLOOOW!  I have no
}accurate estimates, but it probably loses somewhere around 5 minutes in a
}month!  I would like this to be fixed, but I can't afford to send the
}computer in for work.

Get a copy of AT-CLOCK.ARC from PD1:<MSDOS.AT> on SIMTEL20.  It will correct
for the CMOS clock's drift, and includes a program to measure the drift (my
AT loses 228 seconds per month).  It even adjusts for DST for those in the US!
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