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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Date in MSDOS
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Date: 24 Apr 91 17:50:18 GMT
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timmons@atccad.enet.dec.com writes:

>The timer is a four byte value at 46C (40:006C) left to right significance with the

>day rollover bit in 470.

Strictly speaking, that's the BIOS time, not the MSDOS time (as the
original poster requested).  In terms of the day rollover problem, there
is a distinction.  The question is, does DOS save the time elsewhere?

There is an excellent article on this stuff that I bet Joe Dubner would
be glad to fax to you if you asked him nicely...
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