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echo: os2prog
to: Ian Moote
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 1999-12-05 16:47:17
subject: Clocked!

Ian Moote wrote in a message to WILL HONEA:

WH>  Some of these are in fact the source of the DOS problem
WH> of not incrementing the day if you hit the clock routines just right
WH> during the midnight roll-over.  To this day there are problems with
WH> DOS sessions playing games with time set/read at mifnight under OS/2
WH> (and NT for that matter).

 IM> Ahhhhh. (Are you reading this, Roy!? [:) 

Silly question!  :-)  You should in fact have seen my reply to that post by
the time this gets there...

 IM> This is something which has been noticed about DOS by some 
 IM> people for quite some time. 

Referring back to a thread in TECH some time ago,  I guess.

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