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From: hilary@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Hilary Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Help.  My clock runs fast on March 1.
Message-ID: <167@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 16:33:12 GMT
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Reply-To: hilary@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Hilary Jones)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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I have a major problem for which I need a solution by 3/1/92.  Or else!

I am using my two MIPS machines as Kerberos servers, so I cannot tolerate
very much clock drift.  However, last Friday (3/1/91) and a year ago
(3/1/90) the clock on my M/2000 started to gain time spontaneously, at
a rate of about 3 minutes per hour.  I had to reboot the system to
"solve" the problem, but when I looked later I found that the clock had 
still gained a whole day -- exactly to the minute.  If I were to guess, 
I would say that there is a problem with the hardware and/or operating
system that doesn't handle the last day of February correctly.

This problem occurs on my M/2000 running RISC/os 4.0, and on my RC3260 
running RISC/os 4.51, but not on my RS2030, nor on my friend's Magnum 3000.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Is there a fix?