Allegedly, on or about 25 July 2016, Ed Greshko sent: > Actually I would find it very odd that "digital" devices would run > slower as a battery weakens. I mean even my battery operated clocks > at home work perfectly fine without losing time. When the battery > "dies" they just cease to function.
Some (clocks/watches) are good at running until the battery virtually karks it. But any voltage controlled oscillator / phased locked loop circuit may have an accuracy threshold for the supply voltage, before it completely stops. I'm still not convinced a PC clock is deliberately designed to run slow. My experience with flattening BIOS batteries has been peculiar hardware behaviour, can't say that I've noticed the time going skew whiff. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows (TM) [Typhoid Mary]. They refuse to believe that there's anything wrong with it, but everyone else knows Windows is a disease that spreads. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
