Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:58:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Make bug/wart/oddity, Make v 3.76.1
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> At 03:05 PM 2/28/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >Short answer: Upgrade to Make 3.77 (v2/mak377b.zip from the usual DJGPP 
> >places); it should solve this problem.
> 
> There's a newer version?

Since last August, yes.

> It fiddles with the real-time clock instead of letting it advance as per
> normal?

Please read the explanation in the FAQ.  Windows doesn't fiddle with the 
clock, it just computes the time stamp for the file in a way that makes 
its last modification time be ahead of the system clock, in some cases
up to 3 seconds(!).

> >Ha!  Since when is logic part of MS-Windows (or any MS software, for that 
> >matter)???
> 
> Well, the underlying hardware is deterministic :P

Windows is a living proof that software can make any reasonable hardware 
behave unreasonably...