Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Stefan Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.msdos
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> [ This is being resent because it never came through on the list, and a later
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> I'm having a strange problem under dosemu 0.98.3 (98.4 won't compile due
> to some missing "vga" symbol). There's some indication that this has been
> fixed there, but I'm not sure. Basically, at midnight, the date will start
> increasing rapidly... at lease once for every time the "date" command is
> issued, and in some cases much faster than that, at the rate of months per
> second. It seems to depend on what software is running at the time. The
> BBS that I'm running under it ends up going a year every few seconds as
> soon as midnight hits.
>
> The time of day is not affected.
>
> The fix is to set the date manually using the date command, and it will stop
> increasing until the next night at midnight.
>
> An example is below. Any help would be appreciated... it makes it tough
> to run a BBS under dosemu when this happens :-)
>
Sounds like it is leaving the midnight flag on. The midnight flag is
supposed to be cleared when it is first read out. (This of course
means that if anything other than DOS calls the BIOS call to get the
time, DOS loses a day. *Sigh.*)
-hpa
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