Subject: Re: Significant slowdown of clock
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/12/1996 05:03:43
> During the start of February with Christos' kernel changes coming 
> rapidly, I was not able to build a runnable kernel, but now the sources
> seem to be stabilized, and I can again build a runnable kernel for
> my IIcx, but a new problem has surfaced:
> 
> The clock runs slowly, e.g. last night from 23:30 to 7:00, the time on
> the BSD system only advanced to 4:00, i.e. a loss of 3 hours in
> a total of 7 1/2 hours.
> 
> Can this be attributed to NetBSD or has the IIcx's clock (or its
> battery) just stopped working???
> 
> Until two days ago (with kernels built 24 Jan and earlier), the clock
> was much more accurate -- just losing a minute or two a day, which
> was tolerable.

Phew - I thought it was just me!

My clock just lost 2 hours in the last 5 hours - really screws up the 
cron job that calls my ISP to pick up the mail!

Anyway, seems like the clock is running at 50-70% of normal speed...