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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Dear Sir,<br>
I am hoping that this is an appropriate place for a "feature
request" with respect to the program hwclock.<br>
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This relates to a very old problem, which as I remember goes back
to the PC's of the 70's and 80's. My present PC seems to have
just the same issue. It is this, that when the hardware clock is
adjusted/reset then the BIOS wake-on-alarm is deactivated. I am
sure that you guys know this well enough. So this is the simple
request, please read the alarm state before any adjustments, and
restore them afterwards. Thus whatever the user has set will
remain valid.<br>
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Better still, just as the rtc can be reset, so why not add an
option to adjust and also activate/deactivate the alarm? That is,
in addition to my previous request.<br>
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I have been pondering the philosophy behind the present "cancel
the alarm" situation, and frankly I think it is wrong. Perhaps it
is an inherited bug in the BIOS chip hardware, that nobody is
bothered about!<br>
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Yours sincerely,<br>
David Thurgood<br>
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