On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:13 am, you wrote: > Also, just asking, ... is your machine an old one? In which the CMOS > battery needs replacement? :) > > - Sandip
it is also not necessary for the pc to be 'old' for the CMOS battery to fail. other possible reasons; 1) CMOS battery drained if its a recycled/recharged type peddled by some shady guy. 2) drained due to a shortage or leakage. 3) if you have those horrendous PCs that never really poweroff, as in HARD OFF. they tend to look like they've all shut down, but one press on the keyboard and they can powerup again, called a soft on. well, if you have the sense of physically pulling out the power cable from the socket so the PC won't fry while its offically switched off (happens far more frequently than you can imagine) the CMOS battery gets drained more rapidly. nevertheless, i never expect any CMOS-based timing system to be 'mission critical' on the usual i386-type architecture. as ghane rightly points out, you need serious hardware for that kind of thing, or an always on, high-speed connection on a high-speed machine doing ntp. also, i have never really quite understood what is it with operating systems, for instance, why is QNX a true 'realtime' operating system, while gnu/linux isn't? or many of the high-end unix variants on big iron machines? so your OS needs to be a true realtime OS as well, depending on your tolerance threshold of what is realtime enough. for this, try QNX, or the truly free TRON operating system. :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
