Has anybody run Arachne when their computer's clock/calendar was off, especially
ahead rather than behind?
UKA_PPP is subject to crashing if something is not just right, like WATTCP.CFG
environment variable pointing to any directory other than the UKA_PPP directory.
Then I noticed strange years in my file times, would show 94 in directory
listing though the month and day were OK. First time the year was set back to
1994, and Arachne was not affected. Second time, I thought the same thing
happened when I saw 94 in file directory listings, but when I went to correct
the date, I found I was in year 2094. Arachne did strange things like not
scrolling when displaying an Internet page, while OK with file on one's own
computer. On some Web pages, Arachne got stuck in an infinite loop, but
clicking on the X stopped the endless repetition. Now I wonder what happens if
the system clock is just a couple hours ahead, as opposed to 94 years. My
computer clock is 2:14 behind (hours:minutes), one hour more during daylight
saving/losing time because I don't bother to spring forward, fall back on the
computer.
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