Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!Microsoft From: Microsoft@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Date Rollover Bug Message-ID: <12688@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 12:49:46 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12688 Posted: Mon Oct 1 12:49:46 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:33:13 EDT Lines: 16 There are actually two bugs, one of which was fixed in 2.1 (and by extention, 3.*) and one we can't fix. o We use, in the disk driver code, a 2-second logical door-lock. Under 2.0 we were reading the time of day and ignoring the date rollover. This was fixed in 2.1. o The IBM ROM only signals that a rollover occurred, not how many. Thus, if we do not interrogate the timer for > 24 hours, we will lose a day. There is no fix for this.