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- Fixtime Version 1.0
-
- Fixtime is Copyright 1989 by Michael Hutchinson, and may be used
- free of charge. The author will not be liable for incidental,
- consequential or any other mayhem that may be directly or indirectly
- caused by this program or its use, and issues no warranty, express or
- implied, for its suitability or fitness for any purpose.
- (but it works for me.)
-
- Fixtime is designed to compensate for inaccuracy in the on-board
- real-time clock on AT-type machines. It should work on PC/XT machines
- with clock cards, but the clock card must be set from the system time by
- use of the appropriate software. It operates by adjusting the clock
- by a fixed amount when it is run. It is smart enough so that it will
- only adjust the clock once per day, even if run many times a day. I
- run it from my autoexec.bat file. If you do not run the program for
- several days it will "catch up" by adjusting by the appropriate amount.
-
- The program can take two parameters - /c : calibrate program
- paramters must be lower-case /d : display parameters
-
- To calibrate the program you will need to set the clock accurately,
- writing down the time, then wait several days. I suggest waiting at
- least 10 days get an accurate calibration. After this period write
- down the system time and actual time. Run Fixtime /c and answer the
- prompts. It is not neccesary to set and check the time at the same
- time of day, the calibration routine takes different times of day into
- account. The program will calculate the number of seconds error per
- day, and a further adjustment at a minimum 10-day interval to account
- for any fractional second inaccuracy.
-
- The program does not adjust the time until the day after it is calibrated.
-
- Note that the program needs to write to itself to update internal
- variables. It should be run under DOS 3.x or greater so that it can
- find its .exe file. It may run under DOS 2.x if run from the current
- directory.
-
- Please address any comments/bug reports to me at
-
- Michael Hutchinson: Compuserve 75036,2747
-
- Geneal BBS,
- Durham NC (919) 471-6026
-