[Coco] How to get time in DW4

[Bob Devries]

To All:

Thanks for all the replies. I found out that, YES, the time *IS* read a 
minute after the boot is completed, provided a clock access is done during 
that time.

It seems I was too impatient :)

Bill, the command 'date -t' is required, to kick-start the clock.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] How to get time in DW4


> Sounds like maybe another problem with nightly disks?  It should be
> automatic, the dw3 clock module sets the clock to the current server
> time every 60 seconds (when it works / gets loaded / ?)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ok, I've done some research, but I can't find out how to get the time 
>> from the DW4 server and put it inot the OS-9 clock. Sure, I can see how 
>> it could be written, but is there an existing utility to do that?
>>
>> I'm using nos9l2v030209coco3_dw.dsk to boot from in my Coco3, and also as 
>> drive 0 in the DW4 server.
>>
>> If I use setime, I get a message "Clock initialization errors". The clock 
>> is set by default to the time date/time when the distro was created; in 
>> this case 16 August 2012.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>
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