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butcher
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New Jersey, USA
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 03-26-2001 20:42

Can any body tell me why my computer clock is losing time?

Metahedron
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: TriCites TN/VA
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 03-26-2001 20:48

replace your battery.

butcher
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New Jersey, USA
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 03-26-2001 21:00

OK, Thanks

la'dsasha
Neurotic (0) Inmate
Newly admitted
posted posted 03-26-2001 21:13

also, the win98 clock has a known bug that causes it to slow down. for a while, i was running win98 on what is now our webserver, and it lost a significant ammount of time (2 hours one night). restarting the machine would somehow set the clock to its proper time. i didnt replace the battery and it has kept time no problems after i switched to NT (and its now running openBSD). this might have been just an issue with early win98 versions. most of the problems with the clock slowing down were related to various nortons crap utilities i had running (which i certainly dont run anymore).

chances are that it is probably just the battery.

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butcher
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New Jersey, USA
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 03-26-2001 21:19

la'dsasha

It sounds like you hit it right on the nose. I have win98 and norton utilities stuff on my machine. You were also right about the time correcting itself when I shut the system down. I guess it's time to chuck Norton.

[This message has been edited by butcher (edited 03-26-2001).]

mr.maX
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Belgrade, Serbia
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 03-26-2001 21:29

Norton SU&#88;!

bitdamaged
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 100101010011 <-- right about here
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 03-26-2001 22:47

Same problem here sometimes I lose anywhere from 2-30 minutes a night.
I have a little app called AtomTime now that runs at boot and checks my clock against the atomic clock.


Walking the Earth like Kane

linear
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: other places
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 03-27-2001 05:48

NTP
http://www.ntp.org/ (redirects)

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