Clock and PRAM utility questions

[CTB]

I have used the holiday downtime to setup a few macs with either Mac OS 7.5.5 (68K) or Mac OS 8.1 (PPC). I removed all the PRAM battery years ago and don’t really want to reinstall them. I remember back in the day there was a clock utility that would restore the time and date via a time server via the internet. I also remember a utility that would backup and restore your PRAM. All macs have Ethernet, OT 1.3.1 and connect to the internet just fine. After much hoop jumping that is.

Any idea what these were called?

 

[cheesestraws]

"Network Time" is the name of the control panel that does NTP, IIRC. There's also timelord/tardis, which is the AppleTalk time server thingy.

There were several PRAM-savers, but "PRAM Auto-Restore" is the most common I found?

Note that the general purpose PRAM-savers can't properly restore 32-bit addressing status on machines which can be in 24-bit mode. Use my "Force32" extension for that.

 

[rikerjoe]

Vremya is the network time tool that I use. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/vremya