Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!fuug!funic!santra!santra!iisakkil From: iisakkil@xaloc.tky.hut.fi (Mika R Iisakkila) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DOS and BIOS clocks Message-ID: Date: 27 Dec 90 23:00:04 GMT References: <1991Jan5.181959.10764@xrtll.uucp> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Otaniemi Underground Broadcasting System Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: silver@xrtll.uucp's message of 5 Jan 91 18:19:59 GMT silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) writes: > The problem you're experiencing is caused by the fact that most (all?) > versions of DOS are too dumb to increment the date when the clock turns over > midnight. Actually, it isn't quite this stupid - there's usually a one bit 'date changed' -flag, which is set at midnight. If it's set, the bios calls add one day to the date. So you'll have to have the system up without rebooting for two successive midnights to lose a day. -- "Kyll{." - Del Monte -mies