| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 20:08:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Clocks |
Hello Eds
On 14-Aug-00, you wrote:
> Hello Neil
>
> On 14-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
>> Eds Borthwick said,
>>
>>> Crashing often causes the clock to corrupt, and it has a tendency to
>>> reset to the same date time after time.
>>
>> If the system can't find the battery-backed clock, it sets the date to
>> when the boot partition was created/formatted.
>
> Now I didn't know that.
But if the system finds a clock, and it's corrupted, it will ALWAYS set it
to 1970-01-01 00:00:00 - which is no use really, is it?
I've never ever ever had my Amiga use the date on my SYS: partition,
except when I take my accelerator out. A corrupted clock means you
end up reliving the 70's :)
You can easily set your clock when you go online though, which will
enable you to send emails with dead accurate times: look for 'atomic'
or 'facts' on Aminet, and install one. I'd recommend the former, 'cos
it's smaller and it's ARexx. FACTS IMO is a little clumsy :)
Thanks
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