Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/02/00:51:10
At 03:58 PM 2/28/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Windows doesn't fiddle with the
>clock, it just computes the time stamp for the file in a way that makes
>its last modification time be ahead of the system clock, in some cases
>up to 3 seconds(!).
You mean, it doesn't just dump the real time clock into the timestamp on
file write?
And this affects file writes run in a DOS box from a DOS app (and not using
the Windows-augmented command.com that calls itself version 7)?
>Windows is a living proof that software can make any reasonable hardware
>behave unreasonably...
Ditto reasonable wetware.
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