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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: SUN date problem
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Date: 2 May 88 22:12:38 GMT
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> My first thought was that you haven't fixed the clock bug in the Sun
> kernel (contact Sun for details).  My next thought was that perhaps
> the difference between 50Hz and 60Hz power line frequency might be a
> factor; that's about 10 minutes per hour.

Quite likely the former, and almost certainly not the latter; the time-of-day
clocks in Suns run from a crystal, not from the line frequency.