At 10:21 AM 10/25/02 -0400, Larry Gauthier wrote: >Pete, > >Are you saying that the clock was once accurate, but is now inaccurate? I >have never had that happen. I have owned my fair share of computers with >off-tolerance crystals that kept lousy time, but they kept the same lousy >time all their lives.
It's never been wonderful, but the current rate of time loss is at least 10 times worse than before. I did the test suggested by AD1C and turned the PC off for an hour - the clock lost .6 seconds, versus 12 seconds when it is running, which exonerates the battery powered RTC, as far as I can see. >Have you changed your processor lately, or altered the BIOS setting of the >PC to super-clock the CPU? That will cause wildly-inaccurate clock timing. No >My PC's clock is reasonably accurate, but to avoid any log-time problems I >run the free utility from NIST for PC clock management. This program >auto-magically synchronizes your PC clock to WWV at regular intervals (the >interval set by you) You can download it from www.time.gov. I use Dimension 4 for the same purpose, but expect problems when I switch to pure DOS for TR Log. 73, Pete N4ZR
