Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon
From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The time (my watch has troubles) has come ...
Message-ID: <8710191838.AA09565@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 14:38:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: cory.8710191838.AA09565
Posted: Mon Oct 19 14:38:24 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 21:25:36 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Lines: 15

>RTC:
>    61 sec. fast in 103,060 sec.
>Or approximately 0.06% FAST.
>
>Why aren't these locked to the line frequency, which has very good long-term
>accuracy, though may suffer from short-term stability?

	Well, you can't have the battery backed clock on the line freqency...
the whole point is that it still keeps time even when your Amiga is unplugged.
61 secs / 103060 secs = (86400 secs/day)... about 40 seconds a day.  This is
incredibly bad!  Obviously the crystal used to run the battery backed clock is
not being tuned at the factory.  (I don't have one yet so this is a guess)...
at least, they had *better* be crystals and not ceramic resonators.

					-Matt