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From:jeremy spring
Date:11 Nov 2011 at 00:37:29
Subject:Re: Clocks

Hello Matt

On 16-Aug-00, you wrote:

> 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 :)
> Thanks
Thankyou for telling me I dont have a stuffed clock, and that I cannot
even read the time. Obviously the above data is not _always_ true.......

Regards



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