[Info-vax] Openvms AXP clock problem

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-10-14, Sandro Altamura <sandrokan at sandrokan.it> wrote:
> Dear Stephen,
> thanks for your reply. My DEC2K AXP is actually a Jensen machine. I
> know that it is not a "pure" machine (it can even run WinNT) but when
> I bought it more than 10 years ago was already coming with OpenVMS
> installed. I already replaced the 4.5V battery since the old one was
> exhausted. 
>
> NTPD is not running and the timezone is already set. I switch off the
> machine only after getting the chevron on the console so the system is
> definitely shut down. I guess my next step would be to reinstall vms
> (maybe to version 7.3) and see if things will go better.

I've never worked with a Jensen, but this looks like a problem with
the hardware clock.

Many (all?) VAX 11/750 systems had a problem with the clock drifting
with many days of uptime.  Setting the SYSGEN parameter SETTIME to
1 will prompt for the time at boot time, but that only helps if
you reboot the system at regular intervals.

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