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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS date error
Message-ID: <4714@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 23:19:03 GMT
References: <957@aluxp.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Lines: 17
Keywords: leap year
Summary: My DOS 3.1 likes Feb 29 but my JRAMIII clock doesn't

In article <957@aluxp.UUCP>, wg@aluxp.UUCP (Bill Gieske) writes:
> 
> I just discovered that my DOS 3.1 PC thinks it's 3/1 instead of 2/29.  More
> interesting is the discovery that it WILL NOT accept 2/29 as the date.  Yet
> to come is what it does with the date rollover at the end of the day.  If
> time stamping is of importance to you, need I tell you more?


On my machine (IBM PC) the date jumped to March 1 instead of Feb 29.
But I _could_ get DOS to accept the date; but the clock on my JRAMIII
memory board with SSC module would only allow resets to Feb 1, Feb 28,
or Mar 1, not Feb 29.  Perhaps it's your clock and not your DOS.  Not
that it's a big problem, coming once in 4 years.{

Michael Volow, M.D.
Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705
919 286 0411                           mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP