re date is stuck in article apr kosman uucp kevin kosman uucp kevin o gorman writes anybody seen the date get stuck i m running ms dos with a menu system alive all the time the machine is left running all the time suddenly the date no longer rolls over the time is reasonably accurate allways but we have to change the date by hand every morning this involves exiting the menu system to get to dos anyone have the slightest idea why this should be even a clue as to whether the hardware battery cmos or dos is broken i bet it suddenly started sticking when you started leaving the pc running the menu all night there is a limitation bug in the date roll over software in pc s that means you have to be doing something like waiting for keyboard input via a dos call rather than a bios call as menus often use otherwise the code to update the date after midnight never gets called somebody might be able to correct the details in case i ve mis rememberred them but i think you have to change the menu program if you have the sources or add a tsr or system patch or something as far as i know the cmos clock keeps the right time in fact about seconds day better than dos s clock mark aitchison university of canterbury
