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From: bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Reading the Spirit 1.5 MB clock ...
Keywords: bugs, memory, clock
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Date: 8 Mar 88 14:54:14 GMT
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While e-mailing a reply to someone's query regarding the Spirit 1.5MB
memory board for the A1000, I remembered something I wanted to ask about.

Whenever I read the internal clock, it is one day fast.  This includes reading
it by using DATE or by using a program such as RSLCLOCK.  The interesting part
is this: the date is set using the provided setclock function and read using
the readclock function ... both programs print what they think the date is
and they do print the correct date.  
  ie.  setclock 01-01-88         <- I'm not sure of the syntax, but this is the
	Date is Jan 1, 1988         idea.  Same for the output.
       readclock
	set internal time to xx:xx:xx, Jan 1, 1988

Now, if right after that I do a DATE, I get:
       date
	Time is xx:xx:xx, Jan 2, 1988

So, I believe, the problem is in the readclock program.  This is not a serious
problem, but it is annoying.  I was wondering if anyone else has this problem
and has a fix for it ( aside from setting the date to 1 day early ).
Also, any idea what exactly is going wrong?

Blair

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