Odd occurance

[Kirt Leber]

Has anyone heard of anything that would cause the system clock (in win
98) to seem to count the minutes correctly, but not the hours. I'm
wondering if its some kind of virus or something, because it seems
rather odd, and I saw the same thing on one of my parents machines (win
95). Now its happening to me, but nothing is reporting finding anything
wrong. I don't have any reason to think its the battery because my
motherboard is under 6 months old, has been on much of the time, and the
problem occurs when the machine is on. I'll just happen to glance at the
clock in the system tray and its 1 hour behind or something, but I know
it was accurate 4 hours ago.
any ideas anyone????

[Jared Warren]

> Has anyone heard of anything that would cause the system clock (in win
> 98) to seem to count the minutes correctly, but not the hours.

[deletia]

Since I happen to know that Kirt has a continuous connection you could
just get an NTP client (Windows:
http://www.accessone.com/~thinkman/dimension4/, Linux:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/) and set it to fix the clock as often as
you deem necessary. There's a popular Linux utility for correcting
drifting time so evidently you're not alone.

~ Jared Warren