Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!nott-cs!pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!awylie From: awylie@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Standard date bug Message-ID: <39500002@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> Date: 4 Dec 87 13:58:00 GMT References: <7457@eddie.MIT.EDU> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:eddie.MIT.EDU:7457:pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk:39500002:000:432 Nf-From: pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk!awylie Dec 4 13:58:00 1987 I have a Taiwanese XT clone with some strange BIOS and MSDOS 3.2 and the bug has annoyed me some time. This is NOT the 'subtle' bug mentioned in another reply, but a simple non-increment of the date at midnight. This wreaks havoc with MAKE! I shall try CLOCKFIX.SYS tonight. Thanks very much to the poster, his was the only really useful solution proposed. Andrew Wylie University of London Computer Centre awylie@uk.ac.ucl.cs