ClockWatcher v1.1 (27-oct-95) Freeware By Henrik Münther Purpose ------- Have you ever noticed, that some programs(mostly demos and games) resets your battery backed up clock when they crash?.. Anoying when you want to look at the file dates? Well, this is where ClockWatcher moves in. It can, of course, not restore the correct time, but when it discover that the clock has been crashed, it ask you to input the correct time. Requirements: ------------ Should work on any Amiga with Kickstart 2.0 and above. How it works: ------------ ClockWatcher will each time you reboot compare its own datestamp to the current date. If the current date is older(or too much newer) than its datestamp it asks you to input a new date. Then it saves the current date as its datestamp, which means that ClockWatcher's datestamp will allways have the date of the last time you have rebooted. How to use: ---------- ClockWatcher should be executed in S:user-startup. Template: ClockWatcher [GUI] Where N is the maximum number of days ahead, that ClockWatcher will not ask you to input a new date. This should be set to the normal maximum number of days you do not use your computer. The GUI option gives you a Graphical User Interface(the standard preferences time editor, so you need Sys:prefs/time) instead of the normal commandline interface. NOTE! If you select the GUI option, and the clock has been crashed, ClockWatcher automatically sets the time/date to the one at last reboot, before starting the GUI. This makes the correction of the time/date(usually only the time then) much easier. Example: ------- > ClockWatcher 5 Means that ClockWatcher will ask you to input a new date if: A) The current date is older than previous time you rebooted. B) The current date is more than 5 days newer than previous time you rebooted. History: ------- v1.0 First release v1.1 Bug fixed: if you had ClockWatcher in your path, but not in the current dir and then just wrote 'clockwatcher ...' it did not work. Now it reports when something goes wrong The author: ---------- Send ideas, suggestions, bug reports, A4060s or whatever to: Email: Henrik Munther 2:235/419.39 (Fidonet) henrikm@datashopper.dk (Internet) Snail mail: Henrik Münther Ferskenvej 18 2400 Copenhagen Denmark