From: roger034 AT gold DOT tc DOT umn DOT edu
Subject: Re: New time routines
To: davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu (John E. Davis)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 16:03:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu



> I guess that this becomes an issue when DOS machines are connected together
> and there is a need for a consistent time.  Fortunately, I have never had to
> worry about this.  It seems to me that if DOS machines are networked
> together that it would be no big deal to setup the proper environment
> variables or to have the zoneinfo files installed.  However, most machines
> are standalone 

In my experience most DOS machines in a corperate environment ARE networked 
together.  I am typing this on a DOS machine running a modem program hooked 
to a dial-out modem (which is at our corperate offices, 15 miles away) on 
a Novell Lan.  There are 50+ machines at this location on the network, and 
probably that many at the corperate site (they have their own file servers).  

Whenever a DOS machine logs in to the Novell LAN it's clock is set to that
of the file server's.

and, in my opinion, all that is really important is that the
> time routines report the same value as what DOS reports.  I have not
> upgraded to 1.12 yet so I have not tested the time routines but as of 1.11,
> using ctime did not give the same value as DOS.  As a result, I wrote the
> function I previously posted.
>