Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/08/31/18:01:00
> I guess that this becomes an issue when DOS machines are connected together
> and there is a need for a consistent time. Fortunately, I have never had to
> worry about this. It seems to me that if DOS machines are networked
> together that it would be no big deal to setup the proper environment
> variables or to have the zoneinfo files installed. However, most machines
> are standalone
In my experience most DOS machines in a corperate environment ARE networked
together. I am typing this on a DOS machine running a modem program hooked
to a dial-out modem (which is at our corperate offices, 15 miles away) on
a Novell Lan. There are 50+ machines at this location on the network, and
probably that many at the corperate site (they have their own file servers).
Whenever a DOS machine logs in to the Novell LAN it's clock is set to that
of the file server's.
and, in my opinion, all that is really important is that the
> time routines report the same value as what DOS reports. I have not
> upgraded to 1.12 yet so I have not tested the time routines but as of 1.11,
> using ctime did not give the same value as DOS. As a result, I wrote the
> function I previously posted.
>
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