Murray Lesser wrote to Will Honea on 12-02-1999
ML> I have never experienced the "lost day" problem when running
ML> any of my remaining DOS programs under OS/2 in a VDM, possibly
ML> because the only ones that may have been written in C are the two
ML> that I didn't write myself. However, if you say so, I have no
ML> reason for disbelief :-).
From painful experience I can tell you that Borland wasn't the only
offender. MSC 4/5/6 all did this as did Watcom 10.0 - 10.6. I had to
code a workaround to detect the midnight event from the elapsed time
counter then make sure the date had incremented properly. Real
nuisance!
Will Honea
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