Re: red-handed

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> I'd guess it's worth a try... I finally replaced the battery on my 164SX
> after two years.  For the last six months it had been losing the time when
> I powered off, although the clock was fine (both CMOS and kernel clock) as
> long as the board was powered up.  The time never advanced when the power
> was off... on the next boot it would have exactly the same time as on the
> last shutdown.

My batteries are much worse than that. For the past 6+ months, they've
been resetting the clock to 1943 at reboot, which is early enough that
AlphaBios requires a human to hit enter when they boot. Since my weird
clock stops only happen about twice a day on 68 machines, I suspect
that most people wouldn't really notice...

-- greg