Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!221.162.fido!Geoffrey_Welsh
From: 221.162.fido!Geoffrey_Welsh@watmath.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS date error
Message-ID: <17293@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 88 14:49:29 GMT
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 > From: wg@aluxp.UUCP (Bill Gieske)
 > Message-ID: <957@aluxp.UUCP>
 > Date: 29 Feb 88 12:52:51 GMT
 > 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.
 
   The DATE command parsing may not accept 2/29, but if 2/29 is force 
fed to DOS from a program that reads a hardware clock (as was my case), it
will grudgingly accept it.
 
   You have just under four years to write a program that uses a MS-DOS 
Int 21H call to set the date to 2/29 (B^>)
 
   Geoff ( watmath!fido!221.171!izot )

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