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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Internal Clock Question.
Message-ID: <430@antares.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 10:50:00 GMT
References: <8903291457.AA06725@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
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In article <8903291457.AA06725@jade.berkeley.edu> KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears) writes:
>When the 500 is on the clock keeps perfect time, but when the 500 is
>off the clock stops.  At first I figgered that the battery was dead, but
>when I reboot the clock still holds the last time that it had when 
>powered down.  The board it is on is a CMI board.

When AmigaDOS boots up, it gets the date/time from the most recently modified
file on the boot disk.  Since the .info file and the directory creation date
are always being updated, the time will be set to the time when you powered
down.  Therefore you cannot assume that the battery is not dead in your case.
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