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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 23:49:00 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Make bug/wart/oddity, Make v 3.76.1
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

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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