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From: quimby@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Tom Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DOS and BIOS clocks
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Date: 4 Jan 91 13:57:35 GMT
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madams@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael E. Adams) writes:
>
>In either case, DOS keeps a copy of the time/date in it's own working
>area & updates it by itself.  When the DOS clock hits midnight
>a flag is set & the DOS date is advanced.  The problem for machines
>that are left running is that, DOS can only "see" one midnight!  
>So if you boot your machine on Friday morning, DOS will roll the date
>that night, but DOS will be two days short on Monday morning!
>
Well, MS-DOS 3.30 doesn't do that, nor does any standard 3.x/4.x MS-DOS
that I've heard of.  We've kept all of our machines up all the time
for years, and have never had a date slipage problem.  
  
Quimby
  
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