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From: LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET (Leon D. Shaner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Empire 2.2w
Message-ID: <91014.140629LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 14 Jan 91 19:06:29 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.114621.17074@iesd.auc.dk>
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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> system clock. When I log in the time is for instance 20:00:00,
> but when I am thrown out because I've spent my time (1 day)
> 30 seconds later, the time is perhaps 19:59:51 (the same day).
> The time goes backwards !!  It's not a problem with my battery
> backed up clock, I already checked that.
>
>        Claus S.Jensen

I think you'll find that Empire 2.2w also has problems with other
time/date related functions...  I went home over break and took
the game down.  When I returned, the new year had come and the game
looked at the last time players had updated as having occured in
December and now it was January...  Ignoring the year, the game saw
that as negative time flow and so the couple of weeks worth of update
time periods were scrapped and it was just as if time had actually
stopped.  Not too pleasing to most of my users who had set up all sorts
of new sectors and delivery patterns expecting their countries to be
well fortified when they returned...

--Leon

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