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From: pipkins@qmsseq.imagen.com (Jeff Pipkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why is my date wrong?
Message-ID: <76@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Date: 8 Jan 90 16:17:21 GMT
References: <6902@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins)
Organization: QMS Inc., Mobile, Alabama
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In article <6902@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>The date on my system (Epson Equity II+, MS-DOS 3.3) seems to be
>doing some funny things. Yesterday, I had to change it because it
>had lost a day. This morning, I noticed it claimed the date was
>November 29, 1989. The time is correct, however.

Two caveats to consider:

1. If you use the DATE command to set the date (or TIME to set time), it
will NOT set the date and time in your CMOS clock chip.  The next time
you power-on, the date and time will be set from the chip.  To set it
permenantly you will probably have to run the SETUP utility.

2. Although the time is updated constantly, the date is only updated
when it is _read_.  So if you leave your machine on overnight or more,
the date will not have been updated.  Some versions of some BIOSes
do not have this bug.

Good luck.