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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:56:24 -0800
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Re: Why does my PC make such a poor clock?
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On 9 Feb 99, at 8:30, Shkabara, Peter wrote:

> An application can read the time from the real time clock,

  The interface to do this is essentially undocumented in DOS, and
blocked in NT.  The BIOS code to initialize the system time, and the OS
utilities to set the time/date, are about the only code that ever deals
directly with the RTC.


David G

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