On 05/24/2015 10:46 PM, Tim wrote:
I wonder if they've actually be designed to that, or people have just
observed that behaviour, and made an assumption.  I've certainly fixed
up a PC with a new battery, one that exhibited no clock problems.  The
battery was definitely low, resetting the BIOS parameters didn't help,
replacing the battery did.

My understanding is that it's intentional, to warn the user *before* the battery's dead. This is what I learned back in the early 80's from my hardware geek the first time I had a CMOS clock issue.
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