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