On 13 Mar 2007, at 20:51, David Gilham wrote: > I seem to have an unusual problem with respect to the clock > on my Q60 system. > The system is > Q60 60mhz > 64M ram as seen by SMSQE > 128M Physical memory > SMSQE v 3.13 as assembled from sources. > The problem is not with the hardware clock. > but apparently with SMSQE. > On boot up of the machine I normally print the date and time > and a simple menu asking whether I want SMSQE or Linux. > The Time is more or less accurate. > If I boot into SMSQE and let the system run for a reasonable > time printing date$ seems to indicate that the clock is losing > seconds at > an large rate ,apparently 1 minute per hour. This was so whether I > typed Prot_date 1 or prot_date 0 immediatly after a normal boot. > If I do a soft reset the time display and hence the clock reverts > to a more or less accurate value. I am baffled by this. Cursory > looking at the SMSQE > sources seems not to reveal what is going wrong but either my > system is playing up or there maybe timing problems in SMSQE. > Has anyone else noticed this problem or have any idea of how to fix > it. > A temporary fix would involve a polled task but much better would be > in the operating sytem itself. >
My Q60 is now about 9 minutes fast. The time was changed certainly over a month a go. So my Q60 has a much smaller timing error. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
