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From: KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Clock Problem Clear-er-upper
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Date: 29 Mar 89 16:14:00 GMT
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>Your article says:
>> "When the 500 is on the clock keeps perfect time, but when the 500 is off
>> the clock stops. When I reboot the clock still holds the last time it had
>> when I powered down."
>
>Are you sure it doesn't hold the last time you set it to? Did you do a
>"setclock" just before powering down?
>
>With regards to the battery, it is extremely unlikely that you need to replace
>it. The reason they solder it in is because it has an estimated life of about
>12 years. (At Tektronix, we used to figure 7 years, but we were being
>conservative.)
>
>
>There is an easy way to find out if I am right. Do a "readclock" and "date" (or
>whatever sequence reads the clock and displays it); wait about five minutes,
>then do BOTH of them again, and see if it has changed. JUST doing "date" again
>doesn't tell you anything.
>
>

Sorry,
  I didn't make myself clear.  All my references to clock were to the
  BB Clock on board.  All references to "date" were actually the dates
  returned by SetClock opt load.  I have done the suggestion above many
  times.  In fact I have DCRON running to reset my "system Clock" from
  the BB clock because my sys clock runs slow but the BB clock runs perfectly
  UNTIL I turn off my 500 then *THAT* time and date (power down time) is
  what is returned on the next boot.  This clock worked perfectly all around
  for about 6 months then decided to die.

  Again sorry about the "vagueness" (word?)
Thanx.
Opusii.


   Kendall "Opusii" Sears
   KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.bitnet
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