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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Make "Clock Skew" problem.
Cc: ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 09:57:06 -0700
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At 06:13  5/3/1998 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Fri, 1 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> *** 1093,1098 ****
>> --- 1093,1100 ----
>>          *
>>          * Apparently, this doesn't happen with the MS-DOS/DJGPP port,
>>          * although MS-DOS and MS-Windows 3.X/9X also use FAT filesystems.
>> +        *
>> +        * (Actually, it has been reported, hence the conditional --NE)
>>          */
>>         if (mtime > now && (((mtime % 2) == 0) && ((mtime-1) > now)))
>>   #else
>
>According to what I wrote in another message in this thread, you will 
>need to allow up to 3 seconds of skew, to make the messages go away 
>completely.

That message hasn't shown up here yet, but will this patch work?

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*** remake.c~~	Wed Aug 27 20:31:24 1997
--- remake.c	Sun May  3 09:37:14 1998
***************
*** 1085,1091 ****
  	extern time_t time ();
  	time (&now);
  
! #ifdef WINDOWS32
  	/*
  	 * FAT filesystems round time to nearest even second(!). Just
  	 * allow for any file (NTFS or FAT) to perhaps suffer from this
--- 1085,1091 ----
  	extern time_t time ();
  	time (&now);
  
! #if defined(WINDOWS32) || defined(__DJGPP__)
  	/*
  	 * FAT filesystems round time to nearest even second(!). Just
  	 * allow for any file (NTFS or FAT) to perhaps suffer from this
***************
*** 1093,1100 ****
  	 *
  	 * Apparently, this doesn't happen with the MS-DOS/DJGPP port,
  	 * although MS-DOS and MS-Windows 3.X/9X also use FAT filesystems.
  	 */
! 	if (mtime > now && (((mtime % 2) == 0) && ((mtime-1) > now)))
  #else
          if (mtime > now)
  #endif
--- 1093,1102 ----
  	 *
  	 * Apparently, this doesn't happen with the MS-DOS/DJGPP port,
  	 * although MS-DOS and MS-Windows 3.X/9X also use FAT filesystems.
+ 	 *
+ 	 * (Actually, it has been reported, hence the conditional --NE)
  	 */
! 	if (mtime > now && (((mtime % 2) == 0) && ((mtime-3) > now)))
  #else
          if (mtime > now)
  #endif

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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com



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