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From: cla@isis.cs.du.edu (Chuck Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DOS updates of date after midnight (a question)
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.210636.19188@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 21:06:36 GMT
Reply-To: cla@isis.UUCP (Chuck Anderson)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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I have noticed my PC does not advance the date immediately after the time
cycles over to 00:00:00.0. This observation comes from using a "make"
facility (Turbo).

At first I thought that "make" had a bug in it, but last night I noticed
that the time (PC time) was 00:04 something, but the date had not yet
advanced (therefore "make" dependencies did not work as expected). For yucks
I rebooted and the date changed.

Does it really take DOS minutes to check the time and update the date?
Is this "normal" behavior for DOS?

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