PC Clocks are notorious for losing time. They lose it as other programs steal
cycles to do their work.

The best way to combat this is to go to http://download.cnet.com/ and download
a "time synchronization" utility which will synchronize your clock with a time
server on the internet on a daily basis.

Ray Parrish

George Parmenter wrote:

> Hi,
> I am wondering what it means that the clock in my system tray continues to
> lose time even though I changed the cmos battery only a short while ago. It
> is losing time more slowly now than it did before I changed it but still
> falls behind about a minute each day.
> I have a Micron MME, 200 megahertz processor, 48 meg of ram, Diamond
> Stealth video card.
> Is it likely that I simply purchased a faulty battery or does it mean
> something more serious?
> Thanks in advance for any help regarding this.
> George
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