[Info-vax] Openvms AXP clock problem

[Scott Dorsey]

 <sandrokan at sandrokan.it> wrote:
>Dear All,
>I have a strange problem with my DEC 2000 axp running openvms 6.2
>The system boots fine and works fine. The problem comes when I shutdown the=
> system. If I keep it off for 30 minutes and I boot it again the system tim=
>e is 30 min delayed. In other words instead of following the hardware clock=
> the VMS  is continuing with the time of the last shutdown.
>I imagine that there is a parameter in sysgen or similar that should tell t=
>he VMS to follow the hardware clock but I could not find it.
>I also looked online but the only problems reported where about the contino=
>us request of date and time at boot (this doesn't apply to my issue)

It's possible for the toy battery to get sufficiently low that it can't
run the toy clock any more, but it's still able to provide enough voltage
to keep the cmos memory backed up.  When that happens, this is the usual
result.
--scott

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