date is stuck on michael shapiro had the unmitigated gall to say this ms the dos system date has a twenty four hour clock and a rollover bit ms when the system crosses midnight the rollover bit is turned on ms subsequent reads of the time add one there s no change possible ms this information was current up through dos i ve not checked to ms see whether it applies to later versions just a small tidbit with the advent of dos and later versions ms added a small feature to the dos time function if a program sets the dos clock via dos system services then dos will set the bios clock to the same value this breaks the isolation between the two clocks that used to ensure that errors in the dos clock did not bleed over into the bios clock sometimes the microsoft people just don t think fact mickey mouse wears a al gore wristwatch blue wave qwk v the ozone hole bbs a private bulletin board service full service nodes usrobotics k bps gigs files skydive new orleans rime network mail hub usenet newsgroups please route all questions or inquiries to postmaster ozonehole com
