Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: TicksCount Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 07:53:27 GMT References: <1991Jun11.092513.14329@cs.uri.edu> <1991Jun12.184613.3650@viewlogic.com> <1991Jun13.144441.14539@eng.umd.edu> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 19 In comp.sys.mac.programmer, article <1991Jun13.144441.14539@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: < < In my experience, the Mac keeps fairly inaccurate time, whether on battery or < plugged in. It gets off several minutes per month. Mine too. :-( Is there any way to change that? It should be fairly easy to write a cdev that can be told to correct the clock N seconds per months, and which does an incremental change every day or every time the Mac is started, whatever occurs more often. ;-) Fairly easy, that is, for somebody with more time for things like that than I have... -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49-721-621127(0700-2330) \o)/