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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Date does not change when PC is left on
Message-ID: <1344@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 10:32:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  2 10:32:54 1986
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References: <289@rocky2.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <289@rocky2.UUCP> reintom@rocky2.UUCP (Tom Reingold) writes:
>When we leave our PCs on overnight, the date does not always
>change, although the time is kept current.  I have not
>figured out how to duplicate so I don't know exactly why it
>happens only sometimes.
>
>It used to happen only on our Zenith 158 running Zenith's
>MS-DOS 3.1.   Now it also happens on our IBM PC/XT running
>IBM's PC-DOS 3.1.
>
>What is going on?

A bug in the DOS program.  Something about it requiring a keyboard input
before the date will be changed.  I don't know all of the details, but
also heard that IBM/Microsoft wasn't going to fix it in any of the current
DOS versions [3.10/3.20].

Your only choice is to reboot the system to read the, hopefully installed,
time clock chip.
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