From: Till Harbaum <harbaum AT ra DOT ibr DOT cs DOT tu-bs DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Strange Timer with DJGPP
Date: 06 Feb 1997 11:44:53 +0100
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
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Hi you!

While running any DJGPP compiled program (own tools, gnu tools
or gcc itself) my system timer speeds up a little. Normally
this would be no problem, but since my working directory resides
on a nfs server the file times stay normal while the dos system
time runs away. This strange behaviour causes serious trouble
with make (files created in the future / just compiled objects
are older than their source ...). 

A second thing is, that if the time passes midnight while running
a djgpp compiled program the date is not updated. At 23:59 the
time returns to 0:00 of the SAME day. This causes even more trouble
with make (not to mention what my fileserver thinks about this
ugly time tunneling nfs client ...).

It is the timer handlers job to clear its counter at midnight and 
to increase the date. Is this missing in djgpp?

Another explanation would be: My pc got caught in a time trap!

Ciao,
  Till