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From: wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo)
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Subject: Re: TicksCount
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Date: 24 Jun 91 23:38:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.092513.14329@cs.uri.edu> <1991Jun12.184613.3650@viewlogic.com> <1991Jun13.144441.14539@eng.umd.edu> <B+J-M9@smurf.sub.org> <1991Jun19.171029.23693@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun19.171029.23693@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
> 
> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
> 
> >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...
> 
> There is a cdev available on mac.archive.umich.edu called ClockAdjust
> which does just this. Guenther Blaschek, the author of PopChar, wrote
> it. It's been around quite a while, and I don't know how it is under
> System 7.0, but it seemed pretty good. Then again, you could also use
> *my* cdev :-) called Network Time, which sets the clock every so often
> using MacTCP and a timeserver. Lots of other stuff out there too.
> 
> Sorry for the self-serving plug.
>
There was also an application called SetClock floating around the BBS's a while
back that would dial up an atomic clock in Virginia and set your clock to it.

-Tony