Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!silver!creps From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Standard date bug Message-ID: <436@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 22:53:37 EST Article-I.D.: silver.436 Posted: Thu Nov 26 22:53:37 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 18:38:15 EST References: <7457@eddie.MIT.EDU> <598@bucket.UUCP> Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) Organization: Indiana University Computer Science Department Lines: 12 In article <598@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: >The bug *always* occurs. There's a discussion of it in Norton's Programmers >Guide to the PC. I saw Norton's comment, and it says DOS 2.00 didn't consistently update the date on the midnight signal, but that 2.10 and all other versions do. I could still swear that it still happens in 3.2, but I haven't done any scientific checks on this. - - - - - - - - - Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University. creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu "F-14 Tomcat! There IS no substitute."