Re: Palm Connect clock is wrong

James W. Barr (jbarr@mcs.net)
Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:26:52 -0600 (CST)

Welcome to the wonderful world of GEOS timekeeping! This was the topic
of several discussion threads in the comp.os.geos newsgroup a while
back. Basically,for some incomprehensible reason, GEOS handles the clock
on its own instead of relying on the system. Geoworks claims that GEOS
is written properly, and any clock problems you have are with your
hardware. Of course when an anomily like this is reproducable on other
people's machines, I guess that all these people have bad hardware. My
supposition is that GEOS was designed to be the primary OS and that in
situations where you are trying to get in to run under another OS, you
will have problems.

On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Rob Freundlich wrote:

> Alright, here's a weird one. I set up Palm Connect to run in a DOS box
> (full-screen) under Win95, as described in the list archives somewhere. My
> plan was to leave it running all day, minimized, and pop it up when I need my
> datebook or addressbook. Then at end-of-day, sync it with my Zoomer and head
> home.
>
> Problem: when the Palm Connect window is minimized, time stops inside it. I
> left one running Friday, and when I came in this morning (Monday), my PC knew
> it was Monday but the PalmConn window thought it was still Friday. I have
> since verified that time, indeed, stops cold when the window isn't active. the
> biggest problem with this is that when you ExitToDOS, it sets the PC's clock!
>
> I tried turning off "Background Always Suspend" so it would still get
> resources, but that doesn't solve the problem. Any suggestions? or tips on
> running PalmConn's software as native Windows? (yeah, right).
>
> R
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>

-Jim

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