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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2003 03:53:04 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: More on setting clock from startup.cmd

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Steve Carter wrote:
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> My favorite is a PM app, TIME868

When I tested the various programs that set the motherboard clock I
found that TIME868 worked fine, and in fact it's one of the favorites on
OS/2.

I prefer OS2NTPD simply because of the accuracy.

Remember that you need to accomplish two different things and therefore
may need two different executions (and programs) to do it.

-- First, you want to set the clock correctly when you first boot.

-- Second, you want to keep the clock synchronized while your machine is
running. I like OS2NTPD for synchronization because of its 1/60th
second accuracy, but OS2NTPD can't be used to initially set the clock so
for that I use DAYTIME.

As you say, TIME868 is PM which *should* work okay from STARTUP.CMD but
I haven't tried it. I don't know if the WPS stuff (objects etc) is
available when STARTUP.CMD begins executing, and I can't think of
anything that a clock-setting app would need from the WPS.

Perhaps I should use TIME868 for a while and compare it to OS2NTPD.

> it's a NATIVE OS/2 app, not ported from *nix.

Umm, perhaps you don't like your TCP/IP stack?

- Peter

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