Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!killer!tness7!bigtex!juniper!carl
From: carl@juniper.uucp (Carl Gustav Johnson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: theres no time like no time
Keywords: crashed screen date/time
Message-ID: <3177@juniper.uucp>
Date: 18 Jul 88 20:10:03 GMT
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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I finally saw it happen with my own eyes!  Once or twice a month I wake up
to find the date/time across the top of the screen has been replaced with
a pretty dot pattern.  I finally saw this occur.  I was compiling a 
C program I modified slightly, when slowly the time went to dots.
I don't believe cc is to blame.  My questions are:
1) does anyone have any idea what why how this happened?
2) is there an easy way to get the date/time back without rebooting
   ( the systems clock is ok because update times on files work)

Thanks in advance,
Carl Johnson (stil no slick quote)