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to: Simon Avery
from: George White
date: 1998-09-29 23:13:04
subject: Division by time?!

Hi Simon,

You wrote to Tom Torfs:

SA> SA>> AFAIK, the only way around this is to do something like:
SA> SA>> while (t.ti_sec > 59) { t.ti_sec -= 60; t.ti_min++; }
SA> TT> And prey that t.ti_min is never 59 :-)

SA>_dos_settime() is your friend. Make sure t.ti_min is /never/ 59.

Only if you are using a PC as it is a (thin) wrapper for the DOS INT 21
Func 0x2D system call. As the leading underscore shows, it's not an ANSI
standard library function.

George

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