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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
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References: <7457@eddie.MIT.EDU> <598@bucket.UUCP>
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Organization: Indiana University Computer Science Department
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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.
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