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On 7/12/2011 2:23 PM, gene heskett wrote:

> Now, I hate to mention it Terry, but your clock seems to be about 126
> months behind the rest of the world.

Please do not hate to be helpful. It was a bad malfunction perhaps due 
to a run-down battery on a machine turned off for two weeks. I will keep 
watch to see if it happens again overnight.


> Does your system not run ntpd by default?

Is that *nix or Windows? My XP system only checks the net time 
automatically once a week and refused to update at first on request 
because the dates did not match. Typically windows stupidity. If I click 
'Update from internet', it should believe that I really mean it.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy