Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hplisa!hpsmpa!coelho From: coelho@hpsmpa.HP.COM (John Coelho) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: CLOCK NEED TO BE SET ON BOOT UP Message-ID: <820002@hpsmpa.HP.COM> Date: 14 Sep 90 02:50:26 GMT References: <35499@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, CSMC (Loveland) Lines: 22 / hpsmpa:sci.electronics / v129r5mg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sureindran Nadesan) / 5:56 pm Sep 10, 1990 / > Hi guys there, > I wander anyone outthere can help me ? I have been a simple problem. > Whenever I turn on my PC , it asks for the date & time. Is there anyway I can > set it automatically without even inputting any values? I beleive it has a > built-in clock. I hope I do not have to buy additional hardwares.Any suggestions > will be greatly appreciated. > SURESH NADESAN > V129R5MG@UBVMS My machine (DOS hp Vectra) asks for date & time when there is no autoexec.bat file, or maybe you have the date and time commands in the autoexec file. Hope this helps. John.