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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Standard date bug
Message-ID: <7964@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 10:53:37 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7964
Posted: Tue Nov 24 10:53:37 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 01:12:43 EST
References: <7457@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <7457@eddie.MIT.EDU> nathan@eddie.MIT.EDU (Nathan Glasser) writes:
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|I've got a program which could be left running for many days
|for which the date is important.

As far as I can tell, if you interrogate the date via DOS call once
every 24 hours, the date will stay correct. Therefore if you use a DOS
call to get the time in one of the outer loops of your program the date
should stay correct. Perhaps once every few hours to be sure you don't
do over 24.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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