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to: Murray Lesser
from: Will Honea
date: 1999-12-04 00:56:01
subject: Clocked!

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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