Path: utzoo!censor!hugh
From: hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problem with SetClock
Summary: clock just needs the test bit reset.
Keywords: ?????
Message-ID: <417@censor.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 01:29:04 GMT
References: <13334@gryphon.COM> <6689@saturn.ucsc.edu> <2779@mibte.UUCP>
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In article <2779@mibte.UUCP>, jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes:
> In article <6689@saturn.ucsc.edu>, odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
> > 
> > 	I think my clock has died.  I was working on Amy2000 and attempted
...
> Two days ago my wife noticed that the automatic date function in
> the WordProcessor was a couple of days slow.  So I try to set the
> clock.  I can set it with Preferences but SetClock gives Battery
> Backed up Clock Not Found with either the save or reset options.
> 
> Is this the fabled clock virus or is my 2000s battery dead too?
> 
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> ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh
>      
There is no clock virus.
Your battery is probably fine.
The clock chip has a test bit that can get inadvertently set by a
buggy program if it stomps through the right part of memory.  That
is why the 1.3 setclock has a reset option.  Unfortunately, there's
a bug in the 1.3 setclock reset that causes it to not work.

I think there's a program that does reset the clock's test bit 
floating around somewhere.

What has worked for me in the past was running the 1.2 setclock load,
which still gave the error but seemed to reset the test bit because
subsequently 1.3 setclock could set the time fine.

I suspect removing the battery and leaving the computer off for a
couple of days might also work, but would be a real pain.

It would be nice to have an updated version of setclock that had a
working reset option.  I'm sure that this will have been fixed for
the 1.4 setclock at least.
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