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From: venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat)
Subject: Time-of-the-day clock question !
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:50:51 GMT
Keywords: clock
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Hi folks,

I have a question regarding the time-of-the-day clock on the motherboard. My
AT's clock runs a day behind if the machine is left powered-on for over two
consecutive midnights (this is a familiar problem in the pc world, right ?).
Well, I run TSR's when I use DOS to take care of this problem but is there a
fix in 386BSD ? I find that the system date falls behind by a day (in the 
situation described above) - I have to manually reset the date.

One possible solution (I *haven't* tried it yet - just thought of it now !) 
would be to run a cron job and every two days increment the date value  and
reset the date...

Any ideas ? 

My machine 
	- is a 386/25Mhz AT
	- has 4MB RAM/ 125 MB HD
	- can't even keep the time right :-)

Venkat