Louis J. Esch wrote: > > The clock can only be made accurate, by the way, on a PC that is running > under native DOS, not Windows or a DOS running as a "daughter" from > Windows. This is because the creators of Windows, apparently more > interested in glitz than in scientific accuracy, made a system that steals > so many computer cycles away from the "clock" that the displayed time can > be off by many minutes a day, depending on what operations are performed. The Web site is perhaps pessimistic. I rarely see a modern PC with Windows 9x lose/gain more than a few sec per day, but of course that's not ideal & RighTime can still help. One time thief: right-clicking a read/write protected Zip disk in Windows Explorer can eat about 11 sec on some PC models! Best, Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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