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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS updates of date after midnight (a question)
Message-ID: <2355@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 02:55:56 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.210636.19188@isis.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Nov16.210636.19188@isis.cs.du.edu> cla@isis.UUCP (Chuck Anderson) writes:
| 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).

  The date advances the first time the system call to get the date is
called. If the system time is > 2400 the date is bunped. Better versions
of make (such as micromake) issue the system call before doing ab uild.
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