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From: ralph@rtech.rtech.com (Ralph Harnden: I don't wanna badger you (ext3430))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1 real time clock runs fast
Message-ID: <2668@rtech.rtech.com>
Date: 14 Feb 89 23:44:47 GMT
References: <671@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM> <600@icus.islp.ny.us> <631@jonlab.UUCP>
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In article <631@jonlab.UUCP> jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
...
>There was a posting to comp.sources.misc, or alt.sources some 6 - 9
>months ago.  As it was Xenix based, it did not use the VP board.
>
>Rather than using the call the local recorded time message, it called
>the National Bureau of Standards atomic clock (I think in West VA) to
>get the REAL time and set the system clock.
>

Rick Kimball posted ``usnotime'' to unix-pc.sources on 20-Nov-88.  This
program calls the US Naval Observatory (in DC?), and sets the current
time.  Works great on my unix-pc.  (Thanks, Rick!)  Email me at the
address below if you want me to send you a copy....

-- 
"People will do anything for a potato"

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