From: brennan AT news DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "The Rev. Bas" Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Strange Timer with DJGPP
Date: 6 Feb 1997 14:07:58 -0700
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In article <yksohdyfc2i DOT fsf AT ra DOT ibr DOT cs DOT tu-bs DOT de>,
Till Harbaum  <harbaum AT ra DOT ibr DOT cs DOT tu-bs DOT de> wrote:
>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?

Actually, I have been noticing this too. I just hadn't narrowed it down
to DJGPP just yet.

A bit disconcerting when make starts telling me files were created in the
future.

I seem to remember that this is a bug in DOS, when the clock turns around
at midnight and you read it. I could be wrong; I just once had to go through
some extensive source code that went to great pains to not do that.


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