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From: neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: uPort V/386 h/w clock
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 05:21:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 05:21:06 1987
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In article <222@helium.UUCP> scott@helium.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>For whatever reason, it's not possible to set the AT(-style) hardware clock
>on a Microport V/386 system from Unix.  In other words, you've got to boot
>the MsDos setup disk in order to reset the h/w clock, and if you're like me,
>your built-in clock loses time and your system (software) clock gains time.
>Not a pretty situation, nor terribly robust.  Unfortunately for me, the
>support person at Microport seems to have been having a bit of difficulty
>with the notion of there being two clocks, both of which are wrong.  So, I've
>not been able to get them to admit to the existence of a clock setter......
>
I must admit to a bit of confusion, since the 'setup' program that allows
configuration of the V/386 system allows setting of the clock. In fact, the
time zone, date, and time questions are the first questions asked when
running setup. The differences we are experiencing might be due to different
versions of the operating system release. I am running 3.0-U2.2 1 (uname -a).

Thanks for the program though, I will include it in my collection of V/386
specific stuff I am accumulating.

If you are running an older version of the kernel, you might want to see
about upgrading. The version 2.1x kernel has a bunch of fixes over
PreRelease 1.0.
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Steven C. Neighorn                tektronix!{psu-cs,reed}!qiclab!neighorn
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