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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: TicksCount
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References: <14243@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Jun 91 23:18:55 GMT
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In article <14243@goofy.Apple.COM> wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
> 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. ;-)
> > 
> > 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.

The newest version of Versaterm also includes something called Versaterm Time  
Client which uses MacTCP and a time server to reset the time on the Mac.  It  
resets it every reboot, and you can set it to check at 2AM every morning.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
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